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"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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"There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."

"If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other."

"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you."

"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."

"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live."

"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."

"There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work."
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