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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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THE DEVIL. As far as I went, yes. But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and ...more