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"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."
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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."
"Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat."
"It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it."
"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard."
"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
"The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing."
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