Francois Marie Arouet Quotes

• Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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• A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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• Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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• Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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• Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

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• How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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• It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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• Nature has always had more force than education.

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• The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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• The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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• The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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• All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.

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• We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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• A woman can keep one secret – the secret of her age

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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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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