It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VOLTAIREIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
More Voltaire Quotes
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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