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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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'On the Pensées of Pascal,' letter 18, Letters on England (1732)
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Voltaire
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Writer, Philosopher
Born:
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778
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