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• What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received
  it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love....
• Men of reason have endured; men of passion have lived.
  -- Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) -- Maximes et Pensees (1796)...
• Life is a desease from which sleep gives us relife every sixteen hours.
  Sleep is a palliative, death is a remedy....
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial E.T. phone home. --E.T.
• Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'etre oblige de'en pleurer.
  (I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep....
• Every man who possesses power is impelled to abuse it. -- Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu
• Je plie et ne romrs pas. (I bend and do not break.) -- Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695)
• Knowledge is power.--Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Meditationes Sacrae, De Haeresibu...
• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense!
  To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow....