Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

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

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

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A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

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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.

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