Voltaire

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

The reasonable worship of a just God who punishes and rewards, would undoubtedly contribute to the happiness of men; but when that salutary knowledge of a just God is disfigured by absurd lies and dangerous superstitions, then the remedy turns to poison.

One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death.

History is only a record of crimes and misfortunes.