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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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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
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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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"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
Being
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
Soul
"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."
Death
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
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"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."
Self
"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
People
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
Evil
"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."
Soul
"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."
Awareness
"The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop."
World
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