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Not who you're looking for? Others named Voltaire: French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778) · British Thoroughbred racehorse · Paris Métro station · 1933 biographical film directed by John G. Adolfi

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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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Not who you're looking for? Others named Voltaire: French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778) · British Thoroughbred racehorse · Paris Métro station · 1933 biographical film directed by John G. Adolfi

Voltaire is an impact crater on Mars's moon Deimos and is approximately across. Voltaire crater is named after François-Marie Arouet, a French Enlightenment writer who was better known by the pen name Voltaire, who in his 1752 short story "Micromégas" predicted that Mars had two moons. Voltaire crater is one of two named features on Deimos, the other being Swift crater. On 10 July 2006, Mars Global Surveyor took an image of Deimos from away showing Voltaire crater and Swift crater.

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Voltaire is an impact crater on Mars's moon Deimos and is approximately across. Voltaire crater is named after François-Marie Arouet, a French Enlightenment writer who was better known by the pen name Voltaire, who in his 1752 short story "Micromégas" predicted that Mars had two moons. Voltaire crater is one of two named features on Deimos, the other being Swift crater. On 10 July 2006, Mars Global Surveyor took an image of Deimos from away showing Voltaire crater and Swift crater. Impact According to a 2016 study by Nayak et al, the impact that created Voltaire was sufficient to cause large amounts of ejecta that remained in Mars orbit for several hundred years, before a substantial amount of it collided back with Deimos. These impacts were theorised by this study to have been potentially extensive enough to resurface large areas of Deimos, which complicates efforts to accurately date the moon's surface. See also Swift (Deimian crater) Moons of Mars Phobos (moon) Deimos (moon)

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