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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.
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Everything can be borne except contempt.
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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer
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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.
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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
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Opinion is called the queen of the world it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.
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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.
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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.
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The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.
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Ask a toad what is beauty.... he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.
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