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Voltaire
French writer and philosopher; b. 1694; d. 1778
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
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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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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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The superfluous is very necessary.
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