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"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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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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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally."
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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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"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
Talent
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
Libraries
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
Progress
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
Flattery
"When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so."
Acquaintance
"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
Man
"God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs."
God
"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."
Animals
"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."
Wisdom
"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals."
Love
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