The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Sensual 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.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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