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Notable quotes

“On parle toujours mal quand on n'a rien à dire.”
— One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
“En aimant tant la gloire, comment pouvez-vous vous obstiner à un projet qui vous la fera perdre?”
— While loving glory so much how can you persist in a plan which will cause you to lose it?
“Voulez-vous avoir de bonnes lois; brûlez les vôtres, et faites-en de nouvelles.”
— If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.
“Use, do not abuse : neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.”
— p. 34
“Society depends upon women. The nations who confine them are unsociable.”
— p. 145
“There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire – poison and antidote.”
— Bertrand Russell, Kenneth Harris Talking To: Bertrand Russell (1971)

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Overview

Voltaire is a station on Line 9 of the Paris Métro. The station is located under Place Léon Blum (formerly Place Voltaire) along with the town hall of the 11th arrondissement, which serves a lively district. The station was opened on 10 December 1933 with the extension of the line from Richelieu–Drouot to Porte de Montreuil. It is named after Rue Voltaire, which itself is named after François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), better known under the pen name Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher. Station layout Paris Métro stations in the 11th arrondissement of Paris Railway stations in France opened in 1933

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