The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. Voltaire View this quote
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity Voltaire
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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right. Voltaire
A Frenchman who arrives in London, will find philosophy, like everything else, very much changed there. He had left the world a plenum, and he now finds it a vacuum. Voltaire
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate. Voltaire
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. Voltaire
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance. Voltaire
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less. Voltaire
A small number of choice books are sufficient. Voltaire
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people’s attention. Voltaire
Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us. Voltaire
French writer, historian, and philosopher
November 21st, 1694 - May 30th, 1778
