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Biography - Voltaire:

François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
Born: 1694 - Died: 1778
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

Love truth, but pardon error.


Note 

Note





Love truth, but pardon error.

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Translation

Translation

(French, German, Italian, Spanish)



French
Aime la vérité mais pardonne à l'erreur.

German
Liebe die Wahrheit, doch verzeihe den Irrtum.

Italian
Ama la verità ma perdona l'errore.

Spanish
Ama la verdad, pero perdona el error.




See also 

See also...



What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Any man can make mistakes.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.




Quotes for: mistake


Quotes

Quotes about mistake:


I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.





Without music, life would be a mistake.





Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.





All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.





No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.





No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflection.











Quotes for: tolerance


Quotes

Quotes about tolerance:


In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.





Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.





Tolerance is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.





The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.





To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.











Quotes for: truth


Quotes

Quotes for: truth


To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





The language of truth is simple.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.





On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.











Quotes for: forgiveness


Quotes

Quotes about forgiveness:


Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.





I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.





The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.





Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.





Forgotten is forgiven.











Quotes

Voltaire also said...


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.





Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.





The best is the enemy of good.





All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.












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