Voltaire

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

History should be written as philosophy.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.