Voltaire II

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Common sense is not so common.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.

Dare to think for yourself.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away.