It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VOLTAIREWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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