What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

Voltaire
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  2. I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. - Louise Erdrich

  4. People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. - Johnny Depp

  5. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus

More Quotes By Voltaire
  1. She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

  2. Let us work without reasoning, ' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.

  3. Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  4. If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

  5. ‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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