If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIREDiscord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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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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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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