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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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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs
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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes all their learning consists in our credulity.
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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.
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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.
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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.
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But for what purpose was the earth formed? asked Candide. To drive us mad, replied Martin.
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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
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