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hate hatred soul
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
book hands doubt
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.
mean men position
With monuments as with men, position means everything.
feelings life-is
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
wide
I am not deep, but I am very wide.
keys joy intellectual
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
running men literature
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
passion men ideas
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
passion giving village-idiots
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
silence feelings wells
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
hypocrisy manners nations
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
funny nature stupid
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
fake-people duplicity flow
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
husband men lovers
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.