"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." -- Voltaire, Candide (1759) "In this country it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others." -- Voltaire, referring to the execution of the British admiral Byng for failing to engage the French in Minorca (1757), in: Candide (1759) "We must cultivate our garden." -- Voltaire, Candide (1759) "Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them." -- Voltaire, "Superstition", Dictionnaire philosophique (1764) "In fact, history is nothing but a tableau of crimes and misfortunes." -- Voltaire, L'Ingénu (1767) "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." -- Voltaire, Epitres no 96 "Whatever you do, stamp out abuses [superstition], and love those who love you." -- Voltaire, Letter to M. d'Alembert, 28 November 1762 "We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth." -- Voltaire, "Première lettre sur Oedipe", in Oeuvres (1785) "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death you right to say it." -- Voltaire, attributed

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