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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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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
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There are no sects in geometry.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
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Now is not the time for making new enemies.
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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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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.
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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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What can we say with certainty?
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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?
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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.
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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
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We are all guilty of the good we did not do
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.
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It is love love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
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