Writing
Thomas Mann
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Mann Quoted
A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
– Thomas Mann
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
-Thomas Mann
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
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D’après Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Portrait de Voltaire, détail du visage (château de Ferney)
Voltaire is only a pen name but what a pen name!!! His real name was François-Marie Arouet.
Born 21 November 1694
Paris, France
Died 30 May 1778 (aged 83)
Paris, France
Pen name Voltaire
Occupation Writer, philosopher, playwright
Nationality French
Did you know?
Apparently Voltaire was a coffeeholic. He drunk 50 cups of coffee a day. He must have problem sleeping or he must have been nervy or gone to the toilet a lot!!! 😉
A witty saying proves nothing.
-Voltaire
“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.”
-Voltaire
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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire
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“All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.”
~Voltaire
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
– Voltaire
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“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”
―Voltaire
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Books rule the world, or at least those nations which have a written language; the others do not matter.
– Voltaire
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Common sense is not so common.
– Voltaire
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Dress changes the manners.
—Voltaire.
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“Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainly is a ridiculous one.
– Voltaire
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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
– Voltaire
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
-Voltaire‘‘
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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.’’
– Voltaire
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Historians are gossips who tease the dead.
~Voltaire
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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
~Voltaire
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God created sex. Priests created marriage.
-Voltaire
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
– Voltaire
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“Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”
~Voltaire
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
– Voltaire
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“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
~Voltaire
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If God made us in his image, we have certainly returned the compliment.
– Voltaire
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
– Voltaire
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
– Voltaire
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
– Voltaire
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I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely.
– Voltaire
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Voltaire on England:
In this country it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage others.
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Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
– Voltaire
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”Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
– Voltaire
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
-Voltaire
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
– Voltaire
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
– Voltaire
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
– Voltaire, Thoughts of a Philosopher
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O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.
– Voltaire
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
– Voltaire
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
– Voltaire
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Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
– Voltaire
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
– Voltaire
To hold a pen is to be at war.
– Voltaire
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The secret of tiring is to say everything that can be said on the subject.
—Voltaire.
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
– Voltaire
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
– Voltaire
To hold a pen is to be at war. – Voltaire
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
– Voltaire
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
~Voltaire
Freidrich Nietzche
Notable work & ideas:
The Mind of Friedrich Nietzsche
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
– Nietzsche
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A joke is an epigram on death of a feeling.
– Nietzsche</p>
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
– Nietzsche</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">(He had a sense of humour – LOL)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">…..</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
– Friedrich Nietzsche</p>
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Belief in truth begins with doubts of all truths in which one has previously believed.
– Nietzsche
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Books for general reading always smell badly. The odour of the common people hangs about them.
– Nietzsche
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Do not let yourself be deceived: great intellects are sceptical.
– Nietzsche
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God is a comedian, performing for an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
– Nietzsche
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“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
– Nietzsche
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.
– Nietzsche
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“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
~Nietzsche
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“The command ‘become hard! the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which does not kill us make us stronger.
– Nietzsche
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
– Nietzsche
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
– Nietzsche
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
– Nietzsche
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Those who are very beautiful, very good and very powerful scarcely ever learn the truth about anything. In their presence we involuntarily lie.
– Nietzsche
The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
– Nietzsche
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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
– Nietzsche
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There is no beast without cruelty.
– Nietzsche
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The true man wants two things; danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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The last Christian died on the Cross.
– Nietzsche
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both – a philosopher.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
– Nietzsche
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‘‘ We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.’’
– Nietzsche
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
~Friedrich Nietzche
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“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
~Nietzsche
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Woman was God’s second blunder.
– Nietzsche
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
– Nietzsche
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
– Nietzsche
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
George Burns used to crack me up with his one liner. He would be rather serious one moment and then he will hit you with a wicked quote which leaves you laughing or saying “oh yeah!” in wonder!
Here are some of his gems:
Critics are eunuchs at a gang-bang.
– George Burns
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Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman,; it depends on much happiness you can handle.
– George Burns
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I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
– George Burns
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I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.
– George Bunrs
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Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
– George Burns
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Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
– George Burns
Honore de Balzac
Apparently Balzac was quite stout, one of the fattest amongst great novelists. His appetite was legendary. He would dine on a dozen of mutton cutlets, duck in turnip, a couple of partridges, a Normandy sole as a starter. The main course will be a hundred oysters. And these will be finished off with dozen of pears, a variety of sweets and liqueur.
He was a complete pig that people considered him crass and very common. He would eat directly from his knife and would devour his food with bits and pieces spraying round the room.
To give himself a sort of nobility, airs and graces, he changed his name to Balzac from Balssa and added the “de” for affectation.
However, even his frenemies cannot dispute Balzac’s greatness as a novelist. He might owed his genius to coffee. Apparently he was a great coffee drinker. He would consume about 30 cups a day whilst writing up to 12 hours non-stop.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
~Honoré de Balzac
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
– Honore de Balzac
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime
– Honore de Balzac
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
– Honore de Balzac
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Coffee falls into the stomach… ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop… the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, smiles arise, the paper is covered with ink. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.
-Honore de Balzac
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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn’t even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
– Honere de Balzac
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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
– Honore de Balzac
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Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
~ Honoré de Balzac
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
~Honoré de Balzac
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.—Balzac.
Hatred is a tonic. It makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
– Balzac
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
-Honore de Balzac
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I am not deep but very wide.
– Honore de Balzac
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind their backs, society would be impossible.
– Honore de Balzac
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It is easy to sit up and take notice. what is difficult is getting up and taking action.
– Honore de Balzac
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
– Balzac
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
~Honoré de Balzac
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Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine.
~Honore de Balzac
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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instinct and abilities.
– Balzac
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
– Balzac
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Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficently over others.
~Honore de Balzac
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
– Balzac
(huh?)
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
~Honoré de Balzac
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
– Honore de Balzac
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The more you judge, the less you love.
Honore de Balzac
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