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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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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
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"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
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"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
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"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."
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"The proper study of mankind is woman."
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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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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
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"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
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"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."
Friendship
"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
Communication
"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
Battle
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
Man
"Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."
Wisdom
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
Emotion
"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
Gold
"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
Money
"Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
Happiness
"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
Awareness
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