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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 one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.
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The ear is the avenue to the heart.
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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.
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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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