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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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Personal Development
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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Personal Development
"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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"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me."
History
"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
Love
"Books are a finer world within the world."
Books
"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."
Death
"To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for."
Care
"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
Honesty
"If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race."
Character
"Everything is sweetened by risk."
Risk
"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."
Happiness
"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."
Genius
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