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"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."
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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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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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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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"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
Christian
"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."
Politics
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."
Life
"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
Fool
"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
Pleasure
"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."
Life
"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."
Man
"Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire."
Love
"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it."
Life
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