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"Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality."
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"Life is a dancing mind, loving heart, caring soul, and wandering thoughts."
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"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."
Behavior
"There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
Morality
"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live."
Fate
"Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition."
Emotion
"If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways."
Identity
"Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a long and inward disease under which he had a great while languished, and observing that, after his cure, he went much more coldly to work than before, he asked him what had so altered and cowed him: "Yourself, sir, replied the other, "by having eased me of the pains that made me weary of my life."
Psychology
"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."
Purpose
"We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there."
Knowledge
"And in this we must for the most part entertain ourselves with ourselves, and so privately that no exotic knowledge or communication be admitted there; there to laugh and to talk, as if without wife, children, goods, train, or attendance, to the end that when it shall so fall out that we must lose any or all of these, it may be no new thing to be without them. We have a mind pliable in itself; that will be company; that has wherewithal to attack and to defend, to receive and to give: let us not then fear in this solitude to languish under an uncomfortable vacuity."
Solitude
"Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors of extraordinary and reforming opinions, and outwardly to affect the profession of them; who, if they are such fools, have, nevertheless, not the power to plant them in their own conscience."
Philosophy
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