For reasons I'm not going into here, it's unusually appropriate today.
edit 12/17/12: After discussion with a skeptic and subsequent research, I can find no evidence that Voltaire ever actually said or wrote this. However, it does express my grumpiness about some recent events. It's also been driven home to me that getting into some people's good opinion is so expensive, in energy, time, and falsity to one's nature, that their good opinion is not worth having.
Also: the shirt-button on the cuff of the oppressing hand should be on the pinkie-ring side, not the thumb side. But I quibble.
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