Voltaire

Prejudice is opinion without judgment.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

The very idea of a God is a proof of God's existence.

In every country, the law is a spiderweb, and the rich and powerful are the big flies that break through, while the poor and weak are the small flies that get caught.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Let us cultivate our garden.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

The human race is the only one that knows it must die, and it is the only one that laughs.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot think that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy extinguishes them.

The art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.

We are all children of the same Father and creatures of the same God.

The human understanding is of a nature to be more affected by negatives than by affirmatives.

The most important thing for a good government is not to govern too much.