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"Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information

"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
Evil

"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Reason

"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."
Religion

"Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man."
Man

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
Love

"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."
Family

"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."
Man

"I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life."
Life
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