Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
VOLTAIREIt is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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