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"For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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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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"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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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."
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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
Happiness
"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."
Soul
"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
Fool
"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."
Happiness
"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."
People
"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."
Religion
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
Friendship
"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
Creativity
"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
Imagination
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
Love
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