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full name: Francois-Marie Arouet
occupation: writer, historian, philosopher
born: november 21, 1694, Paris, France
died: may 30, 1778, Paris, France
famous work: Lettres philosophiques (1734), Candide (1759)

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voltaire says that common sense was never there

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https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/voltaire-quotes-353004-2016-11-21

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Voltaire

https://study.com/academy/lesson/voltaire-philosophy-works-quiz.html

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voltaire's ideal form of government was a constitutional monarchy that relied on the advice of philosophers and men of enlightened thinking. this was voltaire's ideal form of government because he thought that when governments were not able to overpower other branches, things would run smoother and overall have a better political system.

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'common sense is not so common'

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- voltaire was a deist
- he believed that social progress could be achieved through reason
- voltaire was a proponent of personal liberty and freedom of speech
- voltaire believed in skepticism. he believed in questioning everything because the truth could always be found through evidence