Voltaire

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. 

Voltaire 

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. 

Voltaire 

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. 

Voltaire 

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. 

Voltaire 

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. 

Voltaire 

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. 

Voltaire 

Better is the enemy of good. 

Voltaire 

Business is the salt of life. 

Voltaire 

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. 

Voltaire 

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

Voltaire 

A witty saying proves nothing. 

Voltaire 

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. 

Voltaire 

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. 

Voltaire 

All styles are good except the tiresome kind. 

Voltaire 

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. 

Voltaire 

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. 

Voltaire 

Clever tyrants are never punished. 

Voltaire 

Common sense is not so common. 

Voltaire 

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. 

Voltaire 

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. 

Voltaire