Voltaire Quotes

Voltaire Quotes

Voltaire Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Voltaire:

"Regimen is superior to medicine."

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

"The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him."

"Love truth, and pardon error."

"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."

"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."

"Prejudice is opinion without judgement."

"Monsieur l'abb, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."

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

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