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13535 quotesThe great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
Frankness
Voltaire
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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
Opinions
Voltaire
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Surprises
Voltaire
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Pride
Voltaire
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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Character
Voltaire
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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
Churches
Voltaire
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The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
People
Voltaire
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The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
Punishment
Voltaire
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The superfluous is very necessary.
Necessity
Voltaire
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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Freedom
Voltaire
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Reason
Voltaire
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Creation
Voltaire
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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
Thoughts and Thinking
Voltaire
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Vice
Voltaire
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Courtesy
Voltaire
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Death and Dying
Voltaire
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Life and Living
Voltaire
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We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
Respectability
Voltaire
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Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.
Argument
Voltaire
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Money
Voltaire
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Work is often the father of pleasure.
Pleasure
Voltaire
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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
Devil
Voltaire
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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
Self-love
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
World
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Writers and Writing
Mary Heaton Vorse
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun