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Scoundrels are always sociable.

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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

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Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

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We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

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Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

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[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

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A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

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Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

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Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

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There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

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