If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

A witty quote proves nothing.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.