Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
VOLTAIREThink for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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