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"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
Being
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
Soul
"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."
Death
"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."
Man
"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."
Giving
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
Change
"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."
Self
"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."
Man
"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."
Compassion
"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
People
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