The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
VOLTAIRE
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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