More quotes by Voltaire

"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity."
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)"
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."