“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”

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"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."

- Voltaire

Love

"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by the imagination."

- Voltaire

Love

"The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself."

- Voltaire

Love

"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."

- Voltaire

Awareness

"Don’t think money does everything, or you are going to do everything for money."

- Voltaire

Awareness

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"What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man."

Morality

"Whether a human being is good or bad, right or wrong, can only be determined based on circumstances."

Morality

"Always let your conscience be your guide."

- Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio

Morality

"To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests."

- Matthew Scully

Morality

"When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music."

- Ellen G. White

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