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Religious wars are a dreadful folly, an abomination reserved for devout preachers of patience and humility

Drawn from what Voltaire said

What these subjects mean

humility Knowing what you do not know: whether it makes you learn and decide better, or costs you the self-belief that gets things done.

patience Waiting for results: whether patience compounds into the thing that wins, or impatience is how work gets done fast.

religion Faith as a thing a society runs on, and what has been tried in its place.

What Voltaire actually said

  1. Voltaire French writer and public activist (1694 to 1778)
    The Romans never knew the dreadful folly of religious wars, an abomination reserved for devout preachers of patience and humility.

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