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"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."
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"If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?"
"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
"What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative."
"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
"The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
"I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism."
"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."
"Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself."
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."
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