I must tell to those who doesn't know Voltaire, that he was so wise that he used to joke with words even being cynical or ironical at his time..A Great Man this one too as Budha; but Voltaite is French, so Europe also have/had great philosofers/minds! They are not only on others parts of the globe, so here are some from an european one as i'd posted from others places, as from asia like Budha, so: ...Voltaire and some small quotes:

1.Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire

2.The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Voltaire

3.The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Voltaire

4.The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

5.To hold a pen is to be at war.
Voltaire

6.To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire

7.We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

8.We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Voltaire

9..We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire

10.We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Voltaire

11.Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire

12.What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

13.What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire

14.When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire

15.When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire

16.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.
Voltaire

17.Your destiny is that of a man, and your vows those of a god.
Voltaire