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• ‟ I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

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• ‟ Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

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• ‟ Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

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• ‟ Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself.

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• ‟ No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

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• ‟ Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

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• ‟ There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

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• ‟ In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

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• ‟ It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

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• ‟ Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.

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• ‟ Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.

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