Quoting: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

[onomatopoeias]

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
-Voltaire

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
-Voltaire

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
-Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
-Voltaire

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
-Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
-Voltaire

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
-Voltaire

The secret of being boring is to tell everything.
-Voltaire

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
-Voltaire

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

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
-Voltaire

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-Voltaire

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
-Voltaire

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
-Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance

Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.
-Voltaire

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
-Voltaire