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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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Personal Development
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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Personal Development
"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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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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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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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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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
Marriage
"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
Fame
"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
Politics
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
Life
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
Happiness
"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
Danger
"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
Nothing
"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost."
Religion
"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
Wealth
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
Wisdom
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