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Voltaire
French writer, historian, and philosopher (1694–1778)
François-Marie Arouet was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his nom de plume Voltaire, he was famous for his wit, and his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
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Voltaire Quotes
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
- Voltaire
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
- Voltaire
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
- Voltaire
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
- Voltaire
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
- Voltaire
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
- Voltaire
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
- Voltaire
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
- Voltaire
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