Voltaire Quotes

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans.

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.

This is no time to make new enemies. (When asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan)

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.