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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VoltaireVoltaire I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
VoltaireVoltaire Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VoltaireVoltaire It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
VoltaireVoltaire Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
VoltaireVoltaire The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
VoltaireVoltaire When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
VoltaireVoltaire The more a man knows, the less he talks.
VoltaireVoltaire God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
VoltaireVoltaire Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
VoltaireVoltaire The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
VoltaireVoltaire I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
VoltaireVoltaire The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VoltaireVoltaire Perfect is the enemy of good.
VoltaireVoltaire It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VoltaireVoltaire Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
Alain de BottonAlain de Botton My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
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Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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