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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.
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God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
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Pleasure has its time so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
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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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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?
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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!
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