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"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"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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"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
Love
"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
Wonder
"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."
Life
"We cannot put off living until we are ready."
Living
"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."
Man
"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."
God
"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."
Survival
"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."
Challenge
"An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."
Death
"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."
Life
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