{"author":"Voltaire","author_id":"Voltaire","total_quotes":294,"quotes":[{"text":"Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["crime","punishment"],"id":1650,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"I die adoring God  loving my friends  not hating my enemies  and detesting superstition.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["superstition"],"id":1697,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"Better is the enemy of good.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["better","enemy "],"id":2582,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["philosophy"],"id":2648,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"What's optimism? Said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["hell","mania","optimism"],"id":3467,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["books","reading"],"id":3517,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["fire","property","find "],"id":9037,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["knowledge","men","born "],"id":10029,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["candide","freedom"],"id":11260,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["marriage"],"id":15563,"author_id":"Voltaire"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":294,"pages":30,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}