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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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Nature has always had more force than education.
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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We cannot wish for that we know not.
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All is but illusion and disaster.
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
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