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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once

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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship

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There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it

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The soul is healed by being with children

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it

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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind

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A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression

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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death

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Realists do not fear the results of their study

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys

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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid

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The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions

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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about

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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half

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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man

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