The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIREThe more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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Dare to think for yourself.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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