Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
VOLTAIREIce-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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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.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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