Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob
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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, the world would have been different.
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