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"Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal."
Man,
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"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
Books

"Silence is the wit of fools."
Fool

"I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life."
Life

"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."
Life

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."
Heart

"In art as in love, instinct is enough."
Love

"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
Events

"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."
Life

"Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest."
Sexuality

"What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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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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"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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Personal Development

"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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