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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."
"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt."
"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."
"A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in."
"The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."
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