French - Writer | November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Voltaire
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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