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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. We do not pray to him at all, said the reverend sage. We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.
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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.
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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
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