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"Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way."

"It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it."

"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again."

"I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding."
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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."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"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."
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