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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
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Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
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