"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

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"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."

Beauty

"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."

Future

"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."

Friendship

"The passions of the young are vices in the old."

Old

"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."

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"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles."

Family

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."

Imagination

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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

People, Beliefs, May, Myths

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."

"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him."

"Innocence is always unsuspicious."

"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."

"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."

"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."

"The passions of the young are vices in the old."

"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."

"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles."

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."

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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."