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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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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.
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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft but we do not steal that which is given to us.
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
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History is the study of the world's crime
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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer he is a beater or must be beaten.
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The way to be a bore is to say everything.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace
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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
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The best way to be boring is to include everything.
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History is fables agreed upon.
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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.
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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
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