The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
VOLTAIRELet us cultivate our garden.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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