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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."

"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."

"The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned."

"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."

"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
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