The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIREThe art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIREDespite 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.
VOLTAIREThe secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
VOLTAIREMay God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREBeing unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIREMinds differ still more than faces.
VOLTAIREBehind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VOLTAIREHe must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIREThe happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VOLTAIRESensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
VOLTAIREIf God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
VOLTAIREPerfect is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIREI have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
VOLTAIREIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIRECommon sense is not so common.
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