"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."

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"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."

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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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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."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad."

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"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist."

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"Evil counsel travels fast."

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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Let no such man be trusted."

"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."

"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."

"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

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"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad."

"Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure."

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist."

"Evil counsel travels fast."

"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

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