The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIRETo succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Common sense is not so common.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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