I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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