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"It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred."
"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."
"I live on good soup, not on fine words."
"Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature."
"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."
"I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores."
"There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor."
"Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor."
"Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness."
"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
"Reason is not what decides love."
"The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy."
"I feed on good soup, not beautiful language."
"No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk."
"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."
"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others."
"Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace."
"Things are only worth what you make them worth."
"Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death"
"There is no rampart that will hold out against malice."