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"We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
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"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
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"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."
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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."
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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
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"We say little, when vanity does not make us speak."
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"When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them."
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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
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"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."
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