Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
VOLTAIREIt is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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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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