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"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."
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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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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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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on 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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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
Man
"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."
Nature
"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
Time
"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
People
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
Idea
"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 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."
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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."
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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."
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