Voltaire

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Common sense is not so common.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.