Voltaire Quotes, Errors Quotes, Law Quotes

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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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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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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