In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
VOLTAIREUncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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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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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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