The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIREI would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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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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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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