Voltaire

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

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

"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."

"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."

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