"The secret of being a bore... is..." - Quote by Voltaire
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
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“It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.”
“Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.”
“To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!”
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“For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.”
“It's not about what you're saying, it's about how you listen.”
“What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.”
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“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!”
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
“The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.”