French - Writer | November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
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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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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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