The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIREThe art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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