Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary Quotes
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)
It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.