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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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"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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"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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"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."
Romantic

"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."
Age

"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
Delight

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked."
Ambition

"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."
Poetry

"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."
Man

"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."
Love

"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."
Art

"My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them."
Thought

"The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour."
Power
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