What is tolerance? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all full of weakness and errors; let us reciprocally pardon each other's follies—it is the first law of nature.
— Voltaire Early Modern

Enlightenment philosopher

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Philosophical Dictionary, 'Tolerance'

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1764

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