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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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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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"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."
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"Blushing is the color of virtue."
Virtue

"The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."
Politics

"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."
Relationship

"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."
Man

"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."
Ethics

"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies."
Friendship

"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."
Time

"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."
Man

"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly."
Animals
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