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“Prier Dieu c'est se flatter qu'avec des paroles on changera toute la nature.”

— Voltaire

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Wikiquote: Voltaire
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Context

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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Voltaire. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Voltaire. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire

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