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13535 quotesI know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
Service
Voltaire
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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
News
Voltaire
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In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others.
Army and Navy
Voltaire
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Voltaire
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Government
Voltaire
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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
Fashion
Voltaire
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Books - Reading
Voltaire
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Freedom
Voltaire
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Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
Questions
Voltaire
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Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
Theory
Voltaire
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Marriage
Voltaire
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Greed
Voltaire
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Problems
Voltaire
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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
Coward and Cowardice
Voltaire
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
Patience
Voltaire
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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Pleasure
Voltaire
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Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
Rest
Voltaire
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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
Self-love
Voltaire
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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Idleness
Voltaire
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Superstition
Voltaire
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Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
Superstition
Voltaire
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
Tears
Voltaire
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Medicine
Voltaire
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Government
Voltaire
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The best is the enemy of the good.
Excellence
Voltaire
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun