The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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VoltaireSept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme (1738)
About Voltaire
French Enlightenment writer and satirist, author of Candide. (1694-1778)
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- The best is the enemy of the good.'La Begueule', Contes (1772)
- It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.Le Siecle de Louis XIV (1752)
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.Letter to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia (1770)
- Let us cultivate our garden.Candide (1759)
- 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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- If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.Albert Einstein
- Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.Isaac Newton
- The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.Nikola Tesla
- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.Richard Feynman
- Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.Carl Sagan
- Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.Carl Sagan
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