Such is the weakness, such the perversity, of the human race that it is better, no doubt, for it to be subject to all conceivable superstitions, provided they be not murderous, than to live without religion. - Voltaire (A Treatise on Tolerance Quotes)

Such is the weakness, such the perversity, of the human race that it is better, no doubt, for it to be subject to all conceivable superstitions, provided they be not murderous, than to live without religion.[Telle est la faiblesse du genre humain , et telle est sa perversité , qu’il vaut mieux , sans doute , pour lui d’être subjugué par toutes les superstitions possibles , pourvu qu’elles ne soient point meurtrieres, que de vivre sans Religion.]

Source:(ed. Prometheus Books, 1994), Page 206
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