"There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death."
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"The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names."
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"The more we love, the nearer we are to hate."
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"A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another."
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"It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues."
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"Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful."
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"We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear."
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"We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones."
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"There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer."
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"If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love."
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"Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking."
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"One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable."
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"We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves."
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"There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are."
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"There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from."
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"We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for."
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"Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence."
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"If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere."
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"Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride."
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"Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment."
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