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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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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
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Pleasure has its time so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.
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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests such charity covers a multitude of sins.
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
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All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!
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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
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Excellently observed, answered Candide but let us cultivate our garden.
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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
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