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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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François-Marie Arouet
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Francois Marie Arouet
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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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Everything can be borne except contempt.
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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness
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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.
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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
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A good imitation is the most perfect originality
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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
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Work is often the father of pleasure.
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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
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