I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O... - Voltaire

"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."