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• If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
  But all nature cries aloud that He does exist; that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it....
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire, "Epitres, XCVI
• The superfluous, a very necessary thing. -- Francis M.
  Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Le Mondain, Line 21...
• It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Letter to M. le Riche, Feb. 6, 1770...
• If God had not given us sticky tape, it would have been necessary to invent it.
• I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
  -- Voltaire (1692-1778) signed 28 Feb. 1778 quoted by Tallentyre...