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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
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Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.
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Work is often the father of pleasure; I pity the man overwhelmed with the weight of his own leisure.
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Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body.
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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
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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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Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked.
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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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In this country [England] it is useful from time to time to kill one admiral in order to encourage the others.
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We can not always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
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I cannot guess what may be the fate of Quakerism in America; but I perceive it loses ground daily in England. In all countries, where the established religion is of a mild and tolerating nature, it will at length swallow up all the rest.
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A people that sells its own children is more condemnable than the buyer; this commerce demonstrates our superiority; he who gives himself a master was born to have one.
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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
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Would you console yourself when you die for parting from those with whom you liked to live? Think that they will be soon consoled for your death.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace
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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any experienced in a town when it is under siege.
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People sometimes say: "Common sense is quite rare."
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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
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It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
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Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever, and fury to anger.
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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley — in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered — or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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Born:
November 21, 1694
Died:
May 30, 1778
(aged 83)
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François-Marie Arouet, famous using his pen name Voltaire, was a French writer, deist and philosopher.
Known for:
Candide (1759)
Zadig (1747)
L'Ingénu (1767)
Micromégas
Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
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