Quote #87
Now is no time to be making new enemies. (When asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce the devil and turn to God.)
More from Voltaire
- No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
- The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the diseases.
- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
- Is it any wonder that there are atheists in the world, when the church behaves so abominably?
- The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- If you see a Swiss banker jumping out of a window, follow him, there is sure to be 10% profit in it.
- The perfect form of government is democracy tempered by assassination.