It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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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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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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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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