“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.