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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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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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"If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty."
People

"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."
Freedom

"The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered."
Man

"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."
Care

"Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one."
Old

"Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them."
Family

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
Age

"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."
Beauty

"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
Fashion

"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."
Evil
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