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First Quotes by Voltaire
- 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 -…
- We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
- The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
- He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
- And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and…
- I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
- Illusion is the first of the pleasures
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