19 Quotes by Honore de


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    Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself

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    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.

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    If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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    He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence

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    Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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    It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only

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    To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live

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