The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIREEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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