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The common saying that life is a theatrical performance is verified above all in this: that the world constantly speaks in one way, and just constantly acts in anoher.
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Man is condemned to consume his youth (which is the only time to store up fruit for the years to come and make provision for himself) without a purpose, or to waste it in procuring enjoyments for that part of his life in which he will no longer be capable of enjoyment.
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In every land the universal vices and ills of mankind and of human society are noted as peculiar to that place. I have never been anywhere where I have not heard, 'Here the women are vain and inconstant, they read little, and they're poorly educated. Here the public are curious about other people's affairs, and they're very talktive and slanderous. Here money, favour, and baseness can achieve anything. Here envys rules, and friendships are hardly sincere,' and so on and so on, as if things went on differently elsewhere. Man are wretched by necessity, and determined to believe themselves wretched by accident.
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