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"Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions."
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"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."
Beauty
"Everything in the world is purchased by labor."
Labor
"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."
Man
"The law always limits every power it gives."
Power
"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding."
Rhetoric
"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."
Certainty
"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."
Nothing
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
Trust
"To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive."
Love
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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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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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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