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"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"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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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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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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"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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"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
Man
"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
Power
"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
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"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
Man
"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."
Power
"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
Religion
"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."
God
"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
Intellectual
"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
Ignorance
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
Science
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