More Quotes by Voltaire
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
