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Slander Is The Balm Of Malignity.

Stupidity Would Not Be Absolute Stupidity Did It Not Fear Intelligence.

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!

The Threat Of A Neglected Cold Is For Doctors What The Threat Of Purgatory Is For Priests-a Gold Mine.

Scandal Is An Importunate Wasp, Against Which We Must Make No Movement Unless We Are Quite Sure That We Can Kill It; Otherwise It Will Return To The Attack More Furious Than Ever.