"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"

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"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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Dean Koontz, American Author

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"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."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"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."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"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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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."

"He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver."

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