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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

~Voltaire

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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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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Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: November 21st, 1694

Died: May 30th, 1778

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