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"Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."
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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."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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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."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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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."
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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."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
Nature
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
Books
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
Knowledge
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Age
"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
Performance
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
Happiness
"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
Knowledge
"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
Death
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
Wisdom
"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
Reading
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