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.)
I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.