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"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
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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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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
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"Desire is the essence of a man."
Desire
"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
Man
"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
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"Desire is the very essence of man."
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"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
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"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
Man
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
Being
"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
Nature
"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
Virtue
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