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"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
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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."
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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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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"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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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
Health
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
People
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Poetry
"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
Fear
"Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly."
Endurance
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt."
God
"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
Friendship
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
Friendship
"Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large."
Man
"The wildest colts make the best horses."
Learning
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