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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
VoltaireVoltaire The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
VoltaireVoltaire I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
VoltaireVoltaire The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VoltaireVoltaire Perfect is the enemy of good.
VoltaireVoltaire It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VoltaireVoltaire Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VoltaireVoltaire Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
VoltaireVoltaire May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VoltaireVoltaire Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
VoltaireVoltaire 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.
VoltaireVoltaire To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VoltaireVoltaire Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
VoltaireVoltaire It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VoltaireVoltaire Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
VoltaireVoltaire The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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