Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
VOLTAIREIt is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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