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• The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Merope, Act i, Sc. 3...
• Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
  -- Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode...
• Crush the infamous thing. -- Francis M.
  Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Letter to d'Alembert, June 23, 1760...
• History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- L'Ingenu, Chap. x, (1767.)...
• The superfluous, a very necessary thing. -- Francis M.
  Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Le Mondain, Line 21...
• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.
  We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly- that is the first law of nature....
• What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity.
  We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature....
• It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Letter to M. le Riche, Feb. 6, 1770...
• We pardon in the degree that we love.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 330...