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"Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past."
Past

"It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved."
Art

"The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol."
Work

"The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough."
Happiness

"We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization."
Religion

"My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success."
Success

"The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word."
Finance

"Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals."
Religion

"Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society."
Society

"The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group."
Society
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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Personal Development

"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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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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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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