I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
VOLTAIREThe art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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