“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”

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

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”

“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.”

“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”