More Quotes by Voltaire
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
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 more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
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.
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
