Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VOLTAIREIt is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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