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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Cure Mad Madness Men Thinking
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Acquire Book Education Knowledge Reading
Let us cultivate our garden.
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Cultivate Garden Improvement One Liner
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Confidence Destroy Friendship Heart Sex Vanish
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Amuse Art Disease Medicine Nature Patient
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Kill Life Love Self Love Time Want
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Blush Couple Love Relationship Romantic Voice
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Canvas Imagination Love Nature
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Fools Humour Meet Religion
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Expectation Human Nature Life Live One Liner
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Book Deep Greatness Healing Men Play
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Dead Honesty Live Owe Respect Truth

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