"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

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"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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

Voltaire, French Writer

Man, Men, God, Knowledge

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

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I teach that all men are mad."

Horace, Roman Poet

Man, Men

"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Man, Men, Literature, Opinions, Reason

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"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

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"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."

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"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."

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"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."

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"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."

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"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."

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"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one."

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

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

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"I teach that all men are mad."

"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."

"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."

"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."

"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."

"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."

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"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards."

"He has the most who is most content with the least."

"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one."