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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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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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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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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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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"Anatomy is destiny."
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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."
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"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."
Happiness

"If youth knew; if age could."
Age

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
Being

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
Family

"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
Civilization

"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
Experience

"One is very crazy when in love."
Love

"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
Character
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