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#1

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
― Voltaire

tags: health-care, medicine

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#2

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
― Voltaire

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#3

“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.”
― Voltaire

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#4

“Minds differ still more than faces.”
― Voltaire

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#5

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

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#6

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

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#7

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

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#8

“Dare to think for yourself.”
― Voltaire

tags: freedom-of-thought

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#9

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

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#10

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
― Voltaire

tags: guilt

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#11

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

tags: mortality

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#12

“Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

(Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.)”
― Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville

tags: singing, stupidity

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#13

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire

tags: denial, fear, reality, truth, truth-hurts, truth-quotes, truths

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#14

“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
― Voltaire, Candide

tags: optimism

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#15

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
― Voltaire

tags: philosophical

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#16

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
― Voltaire

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#17

“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”
― Voltaire

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#18

“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.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

tags: conformism, disregard, ignorance, innovation, persecution, reformers, trailblazers

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#19

“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Voltaire, Candide

tags: candide, voltaire

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#20

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

tags: condemnation, guilt, innocence, judgment, justice, mercy, reasonable-doubt, verdict

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#21

“What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
― Voltaire

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#22

“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. ”
― Voltaire

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#23

“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.”
― Voltaire

tags: success

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#24

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
― Voltaire

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#25

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
― Voltaire

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#26

“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”
― Voltaire

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#27

“When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.”
― Voltaire, Candide

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#28

“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.”
― Voltaire

tags: philosophy-of-life

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#29

“There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.”
― Voltaire

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#30

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
― Voltaire

tags: pride

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