It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VOLTAIREEach player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Common sense is not so common.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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