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Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
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Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.
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He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.
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The poor are the blacks of Europe.
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Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
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Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas