It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Quote by Voltaire

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into...

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into...

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad...

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad...

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does...

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does...

The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and...

The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and...

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts

Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother

Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age.

A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old...

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old...

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden...

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden...

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is...

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is...