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To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts

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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other

We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

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