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"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
Effort
"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
Happiness
"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."
Thought
"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
Achievement
"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
Friendship
"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."
Pain
"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
Knowledge
"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
Hope
"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
Man
"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
Friendship
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