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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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"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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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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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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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."
Heart
"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat."
Man
"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
"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
Evil
"The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one."
Fact
"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."
Virtue
"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."
Mind
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."
Happiness
"Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false."
Truth
"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."
Truth
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