Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but... - Voltaire
"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 cars in order to win the game."
More quotes by Voltaire
"I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion."
"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce."
"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."