It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VOLTAIREIt is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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Dare to think for yourself.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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