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ease good greater impediment others terms
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
behind fortune french-novelist great
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
answers pleasure greater
Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
lying greatest-fear anticipation
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
doe martyr great-writers
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
mind great-minds virtue
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
passion ends great-passion
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
came giant power thus
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
bad believe hear
Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
hatred inspires pity weakness
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
loaf science
To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live
desk laughing legal money night owner risks
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.
certain leisure needs position wit
Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position