To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.
Quote by Voltaire
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.
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Voltaire Quotes
- When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
- I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
- The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
- The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
- I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
- To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- Love truth, and pardon error.
Best Quotes
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- The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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- Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
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- A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well.
- In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
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