If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIREThere are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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