A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

A witty saying proves nothing.   

All history is little else than a long succession of useless cruelties.

All is for the best in the best of possible worlds. (Candide)

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Chance is a word void of sense, nothing can exist without a cause.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

Common sense is not so common.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurb one.

Freud found sex an outcast in the outhouse, and left it in the living room an honored guest.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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

I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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

If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.  

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

It is better to attempt to save a sinner than to condemn one who is innocent.

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

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a very large part.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly

Nothing gets done without a little enthousiasm.

One moment's happiness is worth a thousand years of  history.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly

Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Prejudice is the reason of fools.

That is well said, replied Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The best way to become boring is to say everything.

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more certain  I am that I know nothing.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.

The superfluous is so necessary.

This is no time for making new enemies -- on being asked to renounce the Devil, on his deathbed

This poem will never reach its destination.

To conquer is nothing much; one must know how to seduce.

To do is to be.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.

What concern to me are humanity, benevolence, modesty, temperance, gentleness, wisdom, piety, so long as half an ounce of lead shatters my body, and I die at twenty in torments unspeakable, surrounded by five or six thousand dead and dying while my eyes, opening for the last time, see the town I was born in delivered to fire and sword, and the last sounds that reach my ears are the shrieks of women and children expiring in the ruins -- and the whole for the pretended interest of men that we do not know?

What is not in nature can never be true.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.