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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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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"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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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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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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"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."
Creativity
"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
Intellectual
"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
Sin
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
Peace
"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
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
Past
"Desire is the essence of a man."
Desire
"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
Man
"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
Man
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
Science
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