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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development

"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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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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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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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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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Age

"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
Writing

"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
Friendship

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
People

"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
Experience

"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
Art

"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."
Evil

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."
Fame

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
Want

"To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
Man
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