An opportunity fording an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year," says Zoroaster.

— Voltaire

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head a large flat mouth a yellow belly and a brown back.

— Voltaire

At a great distance appeared with the same pomp the sheep of Thebes, the dog of Basis, the cat of Phoebe, the crocodile of Ursine, the goat of Mendes, and all the inferior gods of Egypt, who came to pay homage to the great ox, to the mighty APIs, as powerful as Isis, Osiris, and Horus, united together. In the midst of the demigods, forty priests carried an enormous basket, filled with sacred onions. These were, it is true, gods, but they resembled onions very much.("The White Bull")

— Voltaire

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

— Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing.

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

Better is the enemy of good.

— Voltaire

Better is the enemy of the good.

— Voltaire