Voltaire

The superfluous, a very necessary thing…

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults…

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense…

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of…

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they…

We are rarely proud when we are alone…

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times…

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden…

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss…

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes…

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of…

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to…

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be…

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love…

All styles are good except the tiresome kind…