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"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
Man
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."
Health
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Courage
"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
Business
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
Man
"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."
Age
"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."
Friendship
"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."
Truth
"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
Advice
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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Personal Development
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development
"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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Personal Development
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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Personal Development
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