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Voltaire Quotes

French - Writer | November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Life Birthday God Gift Living Up

Common sense is not so common.

Intelligence Common Sense Sense

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Nature Art Medical Medicine Patient

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Appreciation Others Belong Wonderful

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Man Legal Better Guilty Innocent

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Grief Sympathy Tears Language Silent

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Man Brainy Judge Questions Answers

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Freedom Free Fools Chains Difficult

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Friendship Marriage Soul Divorce

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Faith Power Believe Believing Beyond

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Optimism Madness Miserable Well

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Believe You Commit Make Who Those

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