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Voltaire
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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 characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.
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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.
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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.
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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle namely to reconcile health with intemperance.
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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.
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Love truth, and pardon error.
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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.
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It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
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Now is not the time for making new enemies.
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The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
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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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