Voltaire

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it…

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future…

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous…

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of…

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal…

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord…

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they…

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

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable…