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"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."
Society
"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement."
Leadership
"Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."
Society
"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
Motivation
"A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood."
Ethics
"Dangers by being despised grow great."
Strategy
"To innovate is not to reform."
Society
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."
Politics
"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
Art
"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
War
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