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"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."
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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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"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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"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
Courage
"Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave."
Soul
"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."
Soul
"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."
Man
"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for."
Friendship
"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."
Mistake
"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
Virtue
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
Influence
"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys."
Burden
"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."
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