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"To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few."
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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
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"Poor men's reasons are not heard."
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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."
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"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
Being
"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."
God
"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."
Criticism
"A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in."
Work
"The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."
Books
"In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."
Politics
"There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past."
Men
"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."
Attention
"Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth."
Truth
"It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls."
Thought
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