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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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Personal Development

"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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Personal Development

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."
Relationship

"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."
Friendship

"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."
Relationship

"The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."
Politics

"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."
Man

"We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."
Talk

"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards."
Dogs

"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance."
Fact

"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."
Man

"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one."
Politics
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