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"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
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"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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"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."
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"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."
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"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
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"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
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"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."
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"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
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