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To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

Common sense Moment Best wisdom
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History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

History Romance Believe
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Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.

Cunning Consequence Sense See through
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I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

Had friends Vexed Betrayed me Walked
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It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Difficult Vanity Impossible Self love
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The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

Contempt Money Virtue Wash
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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie

Justice Activity Truth Virtue
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Greater things Perform World Bill
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Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.
Lawyers Rogue Easily rooted Rich soil
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

My manner Thinking Approved.i care
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It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure

Pain One arrives Pleasure
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Know virtue Acquaint ourselves Vice
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Sexual pleasure Passion Subordinate
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Expounded Theologians Conclude God created
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Lust Other passions Nervous fluid Life
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

Dirty element Gives pleasure Lust
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

All universal Moral Principle Idle fancies
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

The man Alters His way Thinking
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The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.
Only way Woman's heart Torment
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.

Doing here Image Like to
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Mode Thought Misfortunes Others
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Religion Cradles Despotism
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True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

True happiness Senses Virtue
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Can we become other than what we are?

Can we Become What We are
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
Love Stronger Pride
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Give Indiscriminately Passion suggest
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Happiness Abstraction Imagination
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

Nature Endowed Capacity Kindly feelings
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

I assumed Everything Must yield Me
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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.

The impossibility Outraging nature Greatest anguish
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

Fear not Precautions Protective contrivances
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The past encourages me, the present electrifies me, and I have little fear for the future; and my hope is that the rest of my life shall by far surpass the extravagances of my youth

Past encourages Present electrifies Little fear Future
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The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

Law Man's life Capital punishment Inadmissible
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Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...

My friend Corrupt Person You love
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Lively sensation Its impressions Dependable
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It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Imitating Vices Others Earned
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Nothing quite encourages as does one's first unpunished crime.

Encourages First unpunished Crime
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It has pleased Nature so to make us that we attain happiness only by way of pain.
Pleasd nature Attain happiness Pain
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Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me

Self interest Men do Forming Important motive
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Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family

Friendship Everything Talent Government
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Great men are not born great, they grow great .

Great men Born Grow
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Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

Never hate Enemies Judgement
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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold

Revenge Dish Tastes Served cold
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Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

Believe Man Truly love Woman
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friend Underestimate Your virtue Enemy
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The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.

Lawyer Briefcase Steal more Man
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Man Spend time Family Never
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I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Trust society Protect us Intention My fate
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Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

Keep Your friends close Enemies closer
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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Never Get angry Threat Reason
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