The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIREOur labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Despite 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.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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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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