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"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
Age
"Concealed talent brings no reputation."
Talent
"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."
Nature
"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known."
Nothing
"Humility is truth."
Truth
"The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men."
Man
"The desire to write grows with writing."
Desire
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
Food
"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."
Reflection
"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"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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"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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