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"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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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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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
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"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."
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"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
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"Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them."
Love
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Courage
"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."
Mistake
"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
Insult
"Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow."
Beauty
"Take the tone of the company you are in."
Adaptation
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
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