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• O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
• I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and…
• We practically always excuse things when we understand them
• Women love only those whom they do not know!
• Women only love those that they don’t know.
• My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
• Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
• We almost always forgive those we understand.
• I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and…
• Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
• When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience…
• We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

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