Voltaire Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes, Failure Quotes

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

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Dare to think for yourself.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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