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Living without trying means having always the doubt that you'll have made it.

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You only appreciate things when they're gone.

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Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up ... anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or ... leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads.

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What is truth?-Inertia; that hypothesis which gives rise to contentment; smallest expenditure of spiritual force.

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Whatever destroys liberty isn't love. It must be something else, for love and liberty are great friends, two wings on the same dove.
Everytime you should see love in conflict with you liberty, it means you're doing something else in the name of love.

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Adam was but human-- this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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There are few reasons to tell the truth whilst those to lie are infinite.

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What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.