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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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The superfluous is very necessary.
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. We do not pray to him at all, said the reverend sage. We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.
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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.
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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.
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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity all perfection is nearly a fault.
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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.
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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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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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We must cultivate our own garden.
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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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