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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
Relationship
"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
Time
"The word of man is the most durable of all material."
Man
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
Nature
"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."
Knowledge
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
Money
"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
Thought
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
Sacrifice
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
Time
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."
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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
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"Mankind advances only through struggle."
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"General consultant to mankind."
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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
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