"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."

Man, Men, Thought, Freedom, Speech

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"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."

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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

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"Genius: the superhuman in man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Men exist for the sake of one another."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"I will praise any man that will praise me."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Man, Praise, Will

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."

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"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."

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"Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God."

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"Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all."

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"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."

Life, Thoughts, Nothing, Paradox

"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."

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"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences."

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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"Genius: the superhuman in man."

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."

"I will praise any man that will praise me."

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

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"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."

"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."

"Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God."

"Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all."

"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."

"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."

"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences."

"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."