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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. ↗

— Voltaire

#each #error #first #first law #folly

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. ↗

— Voltaire

#believe #commit #continue #long #people

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. ↗

— Voltaire

#benefit #government #make #nation #other

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? ↗

— Voltaire

#experience #learn #others #wise

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. ↗

— Voltaire

#any #dance #harm #let us #never

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. ↗

— Voltaire

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ↗

— Voltaire

#madness #miserable #optimism #well

Contraception doesn't define a woman. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#define #woman

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. ↗

— Voltaire

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. ↗

— Voltaire

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