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Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment

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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

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Human nature is not of itself vicious.

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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

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It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

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It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

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Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."

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It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

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