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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"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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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
Love

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
Nation

"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
Happiness

"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."
Beauty

"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue."
Society

"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin."
Business

"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."
Being

"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
Love

"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
Love

"Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart."
Equality
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