"You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts."

Voltaire on evil
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"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire on enemies
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"All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference."

Voltaire on equality
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

Eliot, George on adversity
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"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."

Dune, Frank Herbert on adversity
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."

Woolf, Virginia on war
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"Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on war
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"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright."

Benjamin, Walter on war
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"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature."

Voltaire on faults
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"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."

Voltaire on fate
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"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

Voltaire on evil
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

Epictetus on adversity
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