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I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.
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Satire is the disease of art.
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Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.
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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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Prudence replaces strength by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
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If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
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In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.
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Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.
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There is a melancholy that stems from greatness
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She commands who is blest with indifference.
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We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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He who leaves the game wins it.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.
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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.
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Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
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