"The more often a stupidity is repeated,..." - Quote by Voltaire
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
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“In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.”
“I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.”
“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”
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“The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.”
“Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.”
“If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.”
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“Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.”
“Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.”
“I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.”