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Disputed quotes — Voltaire

1694–1778 France

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

Disputed More Random Walks in Science : An Anthology (1982)

Etymology is a science in which vowels signify nothing at all, and consonants very little.

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Doctors are men who prescribe medicine of which they know little, to human beings of whom they know less, to cure diseases of which they know nothing.

Disputed Note: This attribution to Voltaire appears in Strauss' Familiar Medical Quotations (1968)

The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Voltaire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.