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"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."
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"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
"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
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Wisdom
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
Knowledge
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development
"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
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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