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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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Francois Marie Arouet
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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.
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Paradise is where I am
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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
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All is but illusion and disaster.
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All men are by nature free you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.
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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.
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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!
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There can be no happiness without good health
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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.
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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.
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Love has various lodgings the same word does not always signify the same thing.
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.
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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.
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