"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."

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"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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

Future

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Age

"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

Nature

"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

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"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."

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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."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

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

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

"Not even Ares battles against necessity."

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."