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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."

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

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."

"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."

"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."

"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
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