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"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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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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"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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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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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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"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."
Gain
"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
Nature
"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked."
Man
"Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself."
Strategy
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
Evil
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
Justice
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
Pleasure
"The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow."
Law
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
War
"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
Love
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