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Voltaire

Voltaire

French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet)

Lived from: 1694 - 1778

Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 21 november 1694 Died: 30 may 1778

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  • Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
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  • We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
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  • We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
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  • We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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  • We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
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  • Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.
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  • What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
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  • Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
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  • You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
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  • You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
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  • All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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  • Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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