One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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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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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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