Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
VOLTAIRETo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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