"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."
-Voltaire

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing:
It makes what is excellent in others
belong to us as well."
-Voltaire

"The instruction we find
in books is like fire.
We fetch it from our neighbours,
kindle it at home,
communicate it to others,
and it becomes the property of all."
-Voltaire

"Poetry is the music of the soul,
and, above all,
of great and feeling souls.
-Voltaire

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature
and embroidered by imagination."
-Voltaire

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."
-Voltaire

"Life is thickly sown with thorns,
and I know no other remedy
than to pass quickly through them.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,
the greater is their power to harm us."
-Voltaire