Voltaire

"Better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."

"There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent."

"I have decided to be happy because it is good for my health."

"Books are necessary to the cultured man or woman."

"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming back up."

"The most important mystery is not what lies beyond the grave but what lies between us."

"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering the weaknesses of others."

"Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come."

"The enlightened respect all religions."

"Education forms the common mind."

"In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

"The mind is like a feather: light but capable of amazing heights."

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

"We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature heals the disease."

"A wise man doesn't give the right answer, he poses the right question."

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

"The infinitely little requires an infinite microscope."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"Money is a good servant but a bad master."

"Governments need to fear the people, not the other way around."

"Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains."

"The pursuit of knowledge is endless."

"Perfect is the enemy of good enough."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being cast in prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"Whoever can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit injustices."

"The love of study is a preserve of studies."

"Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age?"