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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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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!
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We should be considerate to the living to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
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What can I hope when all is right?
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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?
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The superfluous is very necessary.
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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.
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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.
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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
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The road to the heart is the ear
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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.
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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.
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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.
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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.
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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
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