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To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.

The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

It hurts being the one who loves more

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.

I enjoy the realism of action more.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.