"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."

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"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."

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"To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else."

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"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."

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"There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."

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"Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave."

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"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."

"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."

"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."

"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."

"To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else."

"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."

"There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."

"Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave."

"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."