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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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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity all perfection is nearly a fault.
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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.
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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.
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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
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A witty quote proves nothing.
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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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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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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.
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He who seeks truth should be of no country.
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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance
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