Francois Marie Arouet Quotes

• 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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• He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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• Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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• Prejudice is an opinion without judgment

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• Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.

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• In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

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• 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.

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• We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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• To believe in God is impossible – to not believe in Him is absurd

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• When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

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

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• I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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• It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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• The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors.

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• Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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• How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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• My life is a struggle.

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• We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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• The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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• Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Francois Marie Arouet (276)

Birth:	21st November, 1694
Death:	30th May, 1778
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Historian, Philosopher, Writer

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François-Marie Arouet was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.

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