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98 quotes (Page 4 of 4 pages)The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
Punishment
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The superfluous is very necessary.
Necessity
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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Freedom
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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
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Creation
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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
Thoughts and Thinking
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This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
Poetry and Poets
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Vice
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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Truth
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Courtesy
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Death and Dying
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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
Truth
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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Poetry and Poets
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Manners
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Life and Living
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We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
Respectability
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Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.
Argument
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
Fame
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Money
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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
Work
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Work is often the father of pleasure.
Pleasure
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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
Writers and Writing
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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
Devil
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun