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"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best."
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"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."
"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."
"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!"
"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."
"It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit."
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"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."
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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