The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
VoltaireChristianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
VoltaireI envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
VoltaireThe system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.
Voltaire