Common sense is not so common.
Quote by Voltaire
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Common sense is not so common.
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Voltaire Quotes
- Love truth, and pardon error.
- We are rarely proud when we are alone.
- The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
- I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
- If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
- The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
Best Quotes
- Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
- There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
- I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
- It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.