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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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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.
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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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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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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.
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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.
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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.
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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity
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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.
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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.
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Better is the enemy of good.
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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.
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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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