More quotes by Voltaire

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
"The ear is the avenue to the heart."
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce."
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."
"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)"