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"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
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"It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind."
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"Our true nationality is mankind."
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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
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"General consultant to mankind."
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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
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"I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
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"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
Imagination

"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
Dream

"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."
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"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."
Nature

"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."
Cards

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
Man

"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
Experience

"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature

"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."
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