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12663 quotesJudge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
Questions
Voltaire
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love
Voltaire
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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Friends and Friendship
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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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.
Prayer
Voltaire
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Problems
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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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Idleness
Voltaire
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
Tears
Voltaire
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Government
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 Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
Churches
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 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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Truth
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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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Poetry and Poets
Voltaire
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Manners
Voltaire
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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
Work
Voltaire
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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
Writers and Writing
Voltaire
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It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
Space
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
Self-love
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun