There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIREIt is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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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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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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