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"Few men have been admired of their familiars."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity."
Diversity
"Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject."
Freedom
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
Fear
"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."
Death
"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
Being
"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
Virtue
"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."
Purpose
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
Being
"Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own."
Courage
"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
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