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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
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    Voltaire
    “Love truth, but pardon error.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: truth
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    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: guilt
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    Voltaire
    “I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Dare to think for yourself.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: freedom-of-thought
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    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
    ― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy
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    Voltaire
    “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: doubt
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    Voltaire
    “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
    ― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes
    tags: condemnation, guilt, innocence, judgment, justice, mercy, reasonable-doubt, verdict
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    Voltaire
    “Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
    ― Voltaire, Traité sur la tolérance, à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas
    tags: freedom-of-thought, independence-of-thought, thinking, tolerance, voltaire
    717 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”
    ― Voltaire, The Works: Voltaire
    tags: faith, reason
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    Voltaire
    “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: philosophy-of-life
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    Voltaire
    “Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
    ― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: conformism, disregard, ignorance, innovation, persecution, reformers, trailblazers
    566 likes

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
    tags: memory, music
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Joy, once lost, is pain”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: beauty, distortion
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    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Epicurus
    “Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: awful, death, inspirational, peace, philosophy, serenity, wisdom
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    Epicurus
    “Why should I fear death?
    If I am, then death is not.
    If Death is, then I am not.
    Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
    Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.
    Religious tyranny did domineer.
    At length the mighty one of Greece
    Began to assent the liberty of man.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: death, end, fear, greece, liberty, religious-tyranny
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    Epicurus
    “It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: folly, self-reliance
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    Epicurus
    “It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: friendship
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    Epicurus
    “If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.”
    ― Epicurus
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    Epicurus
    “He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.”
    ― Epicurus
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    Epicurus
    “Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: latin
    107 likes

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    Epicurus
    “Don't fear the gods,
    Don't worry about death;
    What is good is easy to get, and
    What is terrible is easy to endure.”
    ― Epicurus, The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
    tags: death, ease, endurance, epicureanism, inspirational, philosophy
    103 likes

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    Epicurus
    “Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: humanity, philosophy
    97 likes



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