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He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.
Rien ne dissemble plus de lui que lui-me" me. Nothing resembles him less than himself.
The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference: the doubter fights only with himself.
Ce ge nie particulier de la femme qui comprend l'homme mieux que l'homme ne se comprend. Awoman'sparticular talent istounderstand a manbetter than he understands himself.
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
En re alite , chaque lecteur est, quand il lit, le propre lecteur de soi-me" me. L'ouvrage de l'e crivain n'est qu'une espe' ce d'instrument optique qu'il offre au lecteur afin de lui permettre de discerner ce que, sans ce livre, il n'e u" t peut-e" tre pas vu en soi-me" me. In reality, each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is onlya kind of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable him to discover in himself what he could not have found but for the aid of the book.
Show me a man who cares no more for one place than another, and I will show you in that same person one who loves nothing but himself. Beware of those who are homeless by choice.
If he knew where he was going, it is not apparent from this distance. He fell down a great deal during this period, because of a trick he had of walking into himself.
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