"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."

"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

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"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."

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