The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire
What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
Voltaire
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them
Voltaire
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Voltaire