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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
Performance
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Age
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
Nature
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
Fortune
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
People
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
Money
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
Truth
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
Happiness
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
Body
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
Books
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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Personal Development
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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Personal Development
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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