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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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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.
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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.
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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.
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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion
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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. We do not pray to him at all, said the reverend sage. We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.
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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.
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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes all their learning consists in our credulity.
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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.
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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good we do the best we know.
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
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