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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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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.
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We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.
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