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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."

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

"Better is the enemy of good."

"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

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

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it."

"Business is the salt of life."

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

"Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare."

"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."

"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."

"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."

"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."

"For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow."

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

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