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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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Those who think are excessively few and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.
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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies. (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.
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