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"Man is the inventor of stupidity."
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"In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing."
"Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war."
"Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices."
"We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence."
"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."
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