The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
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Pride more often than ignorance makes us refuse to accept new ideas finding the first places taken in the intellectual parade, we refuse to take the last.
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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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