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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
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"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."
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"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
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"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
Fear
"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."
Leadership
"The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears."
Love
"I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase."
Literature
"The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music."
Love
"Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit."
Society
"Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."
Art
"If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured."
Man
"To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face."
Time
"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
Happiness
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