It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VOLTAIREPerfect is the enemy of good.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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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 dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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