Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
VoltaireThe ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
VoltaireIt is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VoltaireNow, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.
Voltaire