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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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 is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.
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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.
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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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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.
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We never live we are always in the expectation of living.
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