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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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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?
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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.
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Pleasure has its time so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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The road to the heart is the ear
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This is no time to be making new enemies.
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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.
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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.
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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.
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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.
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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
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