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"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men."
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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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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."
War
"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men."
Man
"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."
Friendship
"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured."
Justice
"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought."
Success
"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage."
Happiness
"We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness."
Loss
"Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior."
Legal
"Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them."
Man
"Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger."
Anger
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