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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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"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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"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."
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"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."
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"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."
Friendship

"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives."
Morality

"What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us."
Love

"Shadow owes its birth to light."
Independence

"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee."
Love

"Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save."
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"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."
Intervention

"A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine."
Morality
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