"There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."

Denis Diderot, French Editor

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"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."

Denis Diderot, French Editor

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"He will have true glory who despises it."

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"Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed."

Truth

"There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed."

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"Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment."

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"No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority."

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"Envy like fire always makes for the highest points."

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"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"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."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."

"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."

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"He will have true glory who despises it."

"Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed."

"There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed."

"Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment."

"There is always more spirit in attack than in defence."

"No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds."

"The result showed that fortune helps the brave."

"No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority."

"Envy like fire always makes for the highest points."

"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."