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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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The sunset glow of self-possession.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
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At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
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A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
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