It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VOLTAIRELife is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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