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"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions."
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"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail."
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"All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity."
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"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."
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"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
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"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Conceit is God's gift to little men."
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"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
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"I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world."
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"He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby."
Heart
"Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing."
Wisdom
"There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy."
Happiness
"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"
Death
"The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects."
Life
"The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep."
People
"It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."
Life
"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
Deed
"As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family."
Family
"There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it."
Man
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