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"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."
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"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
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"Civilization and profit go hand in hand."
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"Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery."
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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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"By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else."
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"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
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"Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested."
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"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance."
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"When the toddler does something and there are consequences for his action civilization begins."
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"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."
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"They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence."
Humor
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
Society
"What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do."
Power
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Wisdom
"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."
Friendship
"And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat, and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!"
Economy
"Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who framed them, and less about what he said than about what he meant; not to consider the actions of the accused so much as his intentions; nor this or that detail so much as the whole story; to ask not what a man is now but what he has always or usually been."
Law
"Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state."
Politics
"All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder-either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity."
Emotion
"The physician heals Nature makes well."
Healing
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