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"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"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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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
Thought
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
Education
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
Life
"Friends are born, not made."
Friendship
"Morality is a private and costly luxury."
Morality
"A friend in power is a friend lost."
Friendship
"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
Difference
"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
Man
"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world."
Man
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
Influence
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