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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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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Personal Development

"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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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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Personal Development

"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"
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"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
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"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."
Wisdom

"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
Society

"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
Idea

"Systems die instincts remain."
Philosophy

"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."
Affirmation

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
Equality

"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."
People

"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."
Faith

"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."
Time
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