The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Voltaire

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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

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if Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal

Voltaire


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

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The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire

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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Voltaire

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

Voltaire

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...

Voltaire


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