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	I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. Voltaire Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
	Type: Writer Quotes Category: French Writer Quotes Date of Birth: November 21, 1694 Date of Death: May 30, 1778 Nationality: French Amazon: Voltaire on Amazon	Related Authors: Andre Maurois Francois de La Rochefoucauld Joseph Joubert Nicolas de Chamfort Simone de Beauvoir Voltaire Madame de Stael Stendhal
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