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More Quotes by Voltaire
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.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Dare to think for yourself.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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.
