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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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Personal Development
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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Personal Development
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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Personal Development
"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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"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
Life
"Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas."
Change
"Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current."
Gold
"So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil."
Death
"In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them."
Man
"Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions."
Power
"Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy."
Religion
"What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!"
Life
"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest."
Man
"But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it."
Writing
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