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"Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"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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"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."

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"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."
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