It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion

Quote by Voltaire

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

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

We cannot wish for that we know not.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play...

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play...

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

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

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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

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

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

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

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors

Business is the salt of life.

Business is the salt of life.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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

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

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning!...

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning!...

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord,...

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord,...

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

Think globally, act locally

Think globally, act locally

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go...

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go...