Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

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One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

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I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

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