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"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
Man
"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
Power
"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
Man
"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."
Power
"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
Religion
"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."
God
"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
Ignorance
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
Science
"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
Nature
"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."
Nature
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