To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
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The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
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