I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
VOLTAIREDiscord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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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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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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