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"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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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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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
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"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."
Knowledge
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
Justice
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
Age
"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
Man
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
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"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
Happiness
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
Experience
"The worst men often give the best advice."
Man
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