Voltaire

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything is fine today, that is our illusion.

The very idea of a God is the most sublime and profound of all ideas.

The truest philosophy is to do good and to live in peace.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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

The greatest comfort of man in this life is the knowledge that he has done his duty.

He who thinks himself a philosopher, when he is only a fool, is in a very dangerous situation.

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Madness is to think that a man can do whatever he wants.

The instruction we receive in our childhood is like the engraving on a stone, which time effaces but slowly.

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

The less one thinks, the more one talks.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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

To hold a pen is to be at war.

What is tolerance? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon our follies.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must chain it up or flee from it.

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