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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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"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor."
Success
"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
Friendship
"Fidelity is the sister of justice."
Family
"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."
Passion
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
Soul
"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."
Death
"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
Fool
"The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable."
Act
"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."
People
"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
Fortune
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