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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
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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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Life Live Obligation Truth
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men

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