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• A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
• People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
• Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of…
• A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and…
• For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
• I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good…
• What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can…
• There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt…

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