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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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