Voltaire

The superfluous is a very necessary thing.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by epigrams.

The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

Prejudice is the reason of fools.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

The only way to comprehend what other people are feeling is to wear their shoes.

I have lived for seventy years, and I have seen nothing but revolutions.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I know of no other Christianity than that which was taught by Jesus Christ himself.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives, and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe nothing but the truth.

I have never seen a man who was not a slave to some passion.

The only way to be happy is to be useful.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Paradise is where I am.

The truest philosophy is to do your best to be happy.

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.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.