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To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

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I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

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Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

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Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

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Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

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... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

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Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

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Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

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Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

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That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

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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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Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

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