I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Je meurs en adorant Dieu, en aimant mes amis, en ne haïssant pas mes ennemis et en détestant la superstition.

Voltaire

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Approaching death

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Voltaire

Language

French

Time

1778 1770s 18th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Voltaire. Note to his secretary, Jean-Louis Wagniere. 28 Feb. 1778.

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Language
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Time
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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 7 Apr. 1778.

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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain. And the future as the past would be present to its eyes.

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A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
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Time
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Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.