Love truth, but pardon error.
VOLTAIREIt 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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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