Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
VoltaireThe Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.
VoltaireThe most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.
VoltaireYou see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!
Voltaire