More quotes by 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."
"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
"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."
"S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer."(If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)"
"It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions."