The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. -Voltaire
The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. -Voltaire
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. -Voltaire
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. -Voltaire
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. -Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. -Voltaire
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. -Voltaire
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That penultimate quote is even more timely and accurate in these days.