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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.

Source:Chapter XX: Wheather it is of Service to indulge the People in Superstition
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  • Book: A Treatise on Tolerance
  • Writer: Voltaire
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Published: 1763
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