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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."
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"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
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"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor."
Success

"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."
Power

"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
Friendship

"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."
Money

"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
Soul

"Anger is a short madness."
Anger

"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."
Hate

"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
Life

"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."
Passion

"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."
Man
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