French
Philosopher,
Writer and
Essayist
(November 21,
1694 -
May 30,
1778)
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
"Common sense is not so common."
"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing."
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
"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."
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it."
(Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre
"Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
"Love truth, and pardon error."
"The secret of being boring is to say everything."
"The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it."
"A witty saying proves nothing."
"Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need."
