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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
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.
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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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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.
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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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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.
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This is no time to be making new enemies.
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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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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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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 ear is the avenue to the heart.
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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.
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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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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.
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