It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VOLTAIREThe happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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