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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
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"The idle always have a mind to do something."
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"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."
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"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them."
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"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."
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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
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"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."
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"The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition."
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"Vice stirs up war, virtue fights."
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"To possess taste, one must have some soul."
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"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."
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