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"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."
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"The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition."
Men

"To possess taste, one must have some soul."
Soul

"The idle always have a mind to do something."
Mind

"Great thoughts always come from the heart."
Heart

"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."
Emotional

"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
Virtue

"All grand thoughts come from the heart."
Heart

"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
Mankind

"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."
Men

"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."
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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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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"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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"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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"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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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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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
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