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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!
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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.
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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?
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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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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs
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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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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.
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The way to become boring is to say everything.
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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.
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Mortals are equal their mask differs.
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It is only through timidity that states are lost.
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Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
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