François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French writer, essayist, and philosopher.
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
The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
Voltaire
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
