It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VOLTAIRESometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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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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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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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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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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