More quotes by Voltaire

"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"
"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)"
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."
"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."