Voltaire:

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

— Voltaire Early Modern

Enlightenment philosopher

War (from Philosophical Dictionary)

1764

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"All styles are good except the tiresome kind."

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"We are born without knowledge, we acquire it by degrees."

"Fear follows crime and is its punishment."

"It is the triumph of reason to get rid of the prejudices that one has acquired before knowing how to reason."

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