Voltaire

“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”

“Better is the enemy of good.”

“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”

“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.”

“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”

“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”

“The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.”

“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.”

“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.”

“To hold a pen is to be at war.”

“Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.”

“The best is the enemy of the good.”

“Business is the salt of life.”

“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”

“It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”

“Nature has always had more force than education.”

“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”

“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”

“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”

“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

“The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”