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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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Personal Development

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
Art

"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
Work

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
Life

"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."
Influence

"It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions."
History

"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube."
Creativity

"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."
Man

"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."
Democracy

"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
Evil

"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."
Life
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