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There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

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Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

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We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

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Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: "I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich."

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It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and be filled with eagerness to live.

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Talent is a question of quantity Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.

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Certainly there are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

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Wisdom Quote

Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.

- Albert Einstein

Funny Quote

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

- Oscar Levant

Life Quote

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

- John Lennon

Life Quote

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

Friendship Quote

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

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