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1. "Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves." ~ Benjamin Constant
2. "It is true that love is a feeling one places, whenever one feels the need of placing it, on the first object that happens along" ~ Benjamin Constant
3. "Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other." ~ Benjamin Constant
4. "La variété, c'est la vie, l'uniformité, c'est la mort."[De l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation dans leur rapports avec la civilisation européenne (1914)]" ~ Benjamin Constant
5. "La guerre est antérieure au commerce ; car la guerre et le commerce ne sont que deux moyens différents d'atteindre le même but : celui de posséder ce que l'on désire." ~ Benjamin Constant
6. "We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign" ~ Benjamin Constant
7. "Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!" ~ Benjamin Constant
8. "Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)" ~ Benjamin Constant

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