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"It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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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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"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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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself."
Man
"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat."
Man
"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."
Fear
"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."
Mind
"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."
Virtue
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."
Happiness
"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
Force
"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct."
Instinct
"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
Evil
"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."
Heart
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