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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent."
"Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever."
"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."
"There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men."
"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."
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