Everybody continually tries to get away with as much as he … - Alain

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Everybody continually tries to get away with as much as he can; and society is a marvelous machine which allows decent people to be cruel without realizing it.

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Émile Auguste Chartier (3 March 1868 – 2 June 1951), who wrote under the pseudonym Alain, was a notable French essayist, philosopher, journalist, pacifist and teacher, noted for his profound influence on his pupils, who included Raymond Aron, Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Georges Canguilhem, and André Maurois.

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Alternative Names: Émile Auguste Chartier • Emile Auguste Chartier • Émile Chartier

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Denis Diderot Voltaire Michel de Montaigne Blaise Pascal Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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We are advised and led along by second-rate moralists who only know how to work themselves into a delirium and pass their illness onto others.

Penser, c'est aller d'erreur en erreur.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

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