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.
VOLTAIREI loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
More Voltaire Quotes
-
-
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIRE -
Love truth, but pardon error.
VOLTAIRE -
To hold a pen is to be at war.
VOLTAIRE -
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VOLTAIRE -
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
VOLTAIRE -
Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRE -
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
VOLTAIRE -
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIRE -
Let us cultivate our garden.
VOLTAIRE -
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
VOLTAIRE -
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
VOLTAIRE -
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
VOLTAIRE -
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
VOLTAIRE -
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIRE -
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
VOLTAIRE -
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
VOLTAIRE -
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIRE -
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
VOLTAIRE -
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VOLTAIRE -
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
VOLTAIRE -
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
VOLTAIRE -
Dare to think for yourself.
VOLTAIRE -
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
VOLTAIRE -
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
VOLTAIRE -
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VOLTAIRE -
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIRE