French - Writer | November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Voltaire
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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
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Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
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Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
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