Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
VOLTAIREThe art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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