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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
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"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
"We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"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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