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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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François-Marie Arouet
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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Man is not born wicked he becomes so, as he becomes sick.
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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.
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