Voltaire

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

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

History is only a record of crimes and misfortunes.

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

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.