“To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly”

“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities”

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively”

“I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.”

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”

“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road”

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.”

“Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.”

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do”

“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”

“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”