Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

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

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

The secret of being boring is to say everything.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.