Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIRELove truth, but pardon error.
More Voltaire Quotes
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Each 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.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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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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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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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