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

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

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Diseases are not cured by giving them a name.

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),