It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VOLTAIREOpinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
More Voltaire Quotes
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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