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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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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."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
Genius

"By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man."
Education

"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."
Family

"You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water."
Love

"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be."
Happiness

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."
Philosophy

"Love is not in our choice but in our fate."
Love

"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where."
Death

"The first is the law, the last prerogative."
Politics
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