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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
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This is no time to make new enemies.
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A good action is preferable to an argument.
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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once everything in nature is resurrection.
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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
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God created sex. Priests created marriage.
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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.
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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.
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What is not in nature can never be true.
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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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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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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.
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