I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O... - Voltaire
"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)"
"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)"
"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."(Notebooks)"
"The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy."
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
"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."
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."