We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
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Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
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