"Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous."
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
"To be suspicious is to invite treachery."
"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds."
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire."
"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."
"Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries."
"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."
"A witty saying proves nothing."
"If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him."
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
"Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance."
"You know that these two nations [France and England] have been at war over a few acres of snow near Canada, and that they are spending on this fine struggle more than Canada itself is worth."
"Better is the enemy of good."
"Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them."
"It is not love we should have painted as blind, but self-love."
"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
"God in all his omnipotence can't change the past. That's why he invented historians."
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
"It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color."
"People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it."