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"To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds."
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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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"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."
Ignorance
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."
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"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure."
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"There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen."
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"Love is the crowning grace of humanity."
Love
"What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances."
Earth
"The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling."
Love
"To be able to say how much love, is love but little."
Love
"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."
Beauty
"Man has no greater enemy than himself."
Enemy
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