The best is the enemy of the good.
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Voltaire'La Begueule', Contes (1772)
About Voltaire
French Enlightenment writer and satirist, author of Candide. (1694-1778)
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- Let us cultivate our garden.Candide (1759)
- The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme (1738)
- Love truth, but pardon error.Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme (1738)
- Man is free at the instant he wants to be.Brutus, Act II (1730)
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- Real artists ship.Steve Jobs
- Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.Warren Buffett
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.Peter Drucker
- Nothing is particularly hard if you subdivide it into small jobs.Henry Ford
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