One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)