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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it."
Heaven
"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."
Being
"Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them."
People
"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
Family
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
Thought
"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."
Evil
"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"
Love
"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."
Family
"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little."
Politics
"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."
Man
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