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- I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
- Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
- Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
- Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to…
- Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not…
- Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
- It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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