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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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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.
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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
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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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