To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREReligion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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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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