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"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."
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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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"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
Life
"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
Change
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
Man
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
People
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man
"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
Man
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Strength
"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
Power
"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."
Politics
"The future is purchased by the present."
Future
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