It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEI wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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