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The Random House lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower has found a reference to it in a passage from Varieties of Religious Experience , in which William James quotes words of Voltaire, for which he gives the date 1773: "All comes out at the end of the day, and all comes out still more even when all the days are over."
Diderot’s Encyclopédie championed reason over traditional religion, Rousseau discoursed on the origins of inequality, Voltaire shot at everything that didn’t move.
"I think it's Voltaire who said, 'There's nothing more powerful than an idea that has come of age.
For the third time in 25 years, director Harold Prince revives the 1956 Leonard Bernstein-Lillian Hellman-Richard Wilbur version of Voltaire's novel.
Stimulated by the ideas of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, the country’s intellectuals were more keenly aware of being Europeans, but also Italians.