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An Economist Is A Surgeon With An Excellent Scalpel And A Rough-edged Lancet, Who Operates Beautifully On The Dead And Tortures The Living.

Pleasure Can Be Supported By An Illusion; But Happiness Rests Upon Truth.

Society ... Is Nothing More Than The War Of A Thousand Petty Opposed Interests, An Eternal Strife Of All The Vanities, Which, Turn In Turn Wounded And Humiliated One By The Other, Intercross, Come Into Collision, And On The Morrow Expiate The Triumph Of The Eve In The Bitterness Of Defeat. To Live Alone, To Remain Unjostled In This Miserable Struggle, Where For A Moment One Draws The Eyes Of The Spectators, To Be Crushed A Moment Later -- This Is What Is Called Being A Nonentity, Having No Existence. Poor Humanity!

Preoccupation With Money Is The Great Test Of Small Natures, But Only A Small Test Of Great Ones.

Calumny Is Like The Wasp Which Worries You, And Which It Is Not Best To Try To Get Rid Of Unless You Are Sure Of Slaying It; For Otherwise It Returns To The Charge More Furious Than Ever.