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"The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it."
Man,
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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"In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us."
Judgment
"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune."
Family
"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."
Attention
"There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil."
Truth
"It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do."
Man
"Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one."
Man
"Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light."
Love
"It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly."
Man
"Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man."
Influence
"As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'"
Truth
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