"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"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."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."