The more a man knows, the less he talks.
VOLTAIREDoctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Common sense is not so common.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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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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