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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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François-Marie Arouet
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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness
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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind
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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.
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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.
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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
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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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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
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