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"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
Books
"Silence is the wit of fools."
Fool
"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
Events
"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."
Virtue
"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."
History
"Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."
Acceptance
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."
Love
"One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me."
Man
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
Equality
"Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal."
Man
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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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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