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

"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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Personal Development

"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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"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power."
Man

"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
War

"A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients."
Gambling

"He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."
History

"Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."
History

"Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else."
People

"Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness."
History

"The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long."
Age

"The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight."
War

"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914."
War
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