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"Now, this is no time for making enemies."

on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

"He must be very ignorant if he answers every question he is asked."

"It is not enough to conquer, one must know how to seduce..."

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."

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

"England has forty-two religions and only two sauces."

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

~François-Marie Arouet aka Voltaire
author & philosopher (1694—1778)

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