"Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation."

-- A. A. Gill

#Happy Life Quotes #History Quotes #Choices Quotes

“You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.”
“There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.”
“I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.”
“Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed... The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible the search for a new enlightenment.”
“I only allow that which is good into my life. No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything.....other than what you allow!”
“Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!”
“Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.”
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”

Source : "Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers: Troisième Entretien". Book by Voltaire, 1767.

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