The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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 forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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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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