She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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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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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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