We are rarely proud when we are alone.
—Voltaire
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On parle toujours mal quand on n’a rien à dire. One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
—Voltaire
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J’ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte. La voici: Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules! I always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: “O Lord, make our enemies quite ridiculous!”
—Voltaire
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Il est bien malaisé (puisqu’il faut enfin m’expliquer) d’ôter à des insensés des chaînes qu’ils révèrent. It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
—Voltaire
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Le sens commun n’est pas si commun. Common sense is not so common.
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Ask a toad what is beauty … ; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.
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Le secret d’ennuyer est celui de tout dire. The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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L’homme doit être content, dit-on; mais de quo? Man ought to be content, it is said; but with what?
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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
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A witty saying proves nothing.
—Voltaire