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"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."
People
"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."
Death
"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
Time
"Weaklings must lie."
Lie
"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."
Life
"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm."
Life
"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
Action
"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."
Home
"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Life
"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."
Death
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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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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
"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
"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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Personal Development
"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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Personal Development
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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Personal Development
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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Personal Development
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