More quotes by Voltaire

"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh."
"We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one"
"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."
"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)"