Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done.
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Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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Society, civilized society, at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef. And, after all, it is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in his private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
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To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
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Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal. A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all. I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where. Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off.
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Power is not taken, it is found.
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Why must you be in the wrong only when a couple million people think it that way?
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A population that doens't take on debt enrages usurers.
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Every human being is something personal and unique; the need to substitute the place of personal conscience with a collective one is already a violence, and the first step towards any form of totalitarianism.
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