The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIREWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Common sense is not so common.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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