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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."
Politics

"No nation has friends only interests."
Friendship

"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends."
Friendship

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
Politics

"Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last."
Politics

"When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself."
Skepticism

"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time."
Time

"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."
Being

"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."
Leadership

"I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge."
Authority
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