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"The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."
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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."
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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."
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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."
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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."
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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."
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"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."
Relationship
"The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."
Politics
"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."
Relationship
"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."
Man
"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."
Ethics
"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies."
Friendship
"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."
Time
"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."
Man
"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly."
Animals
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
World
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