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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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"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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"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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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love
"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
Philosophy
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
Advice
"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
Philosophy
"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
Desire
"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
Philosophy
"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
Ability
"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
Philosophy
"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
Philosophy
"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."
Love
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