The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIREMan is free at the instant he wants to be.
More Voltaire Quotes
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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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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