"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."

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"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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Samuel Butler, British Poet

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Samuel Johnson, English Author

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Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"Genius: the superhuman in man."

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

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"Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories."

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"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."

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"It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it."

"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."

"My ideas are my whores."