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Voltaire

Voltaire
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.
The superfluous is very necessary.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
If there were no priests, people would be more religious.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
A witty saying proves nothing.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.