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"It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men."
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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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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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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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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."
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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
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"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
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"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."
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"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."
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"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."
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