Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
VOLTAIREOne day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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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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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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