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"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy."
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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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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"
Life
"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy."
Man
"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
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"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
Wit
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
Friendship
"We must take our friends as they are."
Friendship
"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything."
Character
"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good."
Power
"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
Conversation
"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
Argument
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