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"The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part."
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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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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"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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"The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part."
Man

"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."
Happiness

"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"
Art

"I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion."
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"I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done."
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"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."
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"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."
Mind

"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."
People

"Approval or blame will follow in the world to come."
Approval

"Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy."
Heart
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