It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VOLTAIREBeing unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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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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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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