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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
Philosophy
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
Man
"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."
Philosophy
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
Mistake
"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."
Philosophy
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
Man
"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
Love
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
People
"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."
Wisdom
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
People
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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Personal Development
"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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Personal Development
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