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"We must powder our wigs, that is why so many poor people have no bread."
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"Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it."
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"We must powder our wigs, that is why so many poor people have no bread."
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"We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy."
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"Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers."
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"The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
Nature
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
Books
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
Knowledge
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Age
"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
Performance
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
Happiness
"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
Knowledge
"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
Death
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
Wisdom
"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
Reading
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