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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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Francois Marie Arouet
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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.
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All pleasantry should be short and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
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Man is not born wicked he becomes so, as he becomes sick.
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.
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It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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The road to the heart is the ear
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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.
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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
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The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.
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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.
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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.
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