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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
[ Passion ]
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
[ Fame ]
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
[ Fashion ]
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Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
[ Mind ]
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
[ Respectability ]
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
[ Nations ]
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
[ Experience ]
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
[ Books - Reading ]
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No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
[ Decency ]
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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
[ Reason ]
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
[ Illusion ]
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
[ Pleasure ]
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
[ Money ]
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
[ Deeds and Good Deeds ]
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
[ Secrets ]
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
[ Society ]
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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Success makes success, like money makes money.
[ Success ]
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
[ Tact and Tactfulness ]
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
[ Laughter ]
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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
[ Public Opinion ]
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
[ Ideas ]
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
[ Justice ]
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Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
[ Men and Women ]
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