Voltaire

=Voltaire=

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1. All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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

3. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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

5. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

6. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

7. Regimen is superior to medicine.

8. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

9. Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

10. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

11. The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

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