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No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous po...more

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

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Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

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Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had...more

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.