It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Everything is for the best in this best of possible worlds.

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.