Voltaire

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Doubt is not a pleasant mental state but certainty is a ridiculous one.

He who makes two blades of grass grow in place of one renders a service to the state.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely.
- All from François Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778

About: François Marie Arouet was born at Paris on 21 Nov in 1694. He received his education at a Jesuit college there, leaving school at age 16 and soon becoming a favorite among the aristocracy for his wit. Hubris struck, after he wrote a satire of the government he spent almost a year in the Bastille. He kept writing, but started using the name Voltaire.