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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 the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
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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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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.
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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.
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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.
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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.
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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
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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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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly others, not to reason at all and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.
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