The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIREIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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