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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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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.
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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.
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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling
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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.
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We never live we are always in the expectation of living.
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