Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.
VoltaireAnyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
VoltaireLet us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.
Voltaire