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"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess."
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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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"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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"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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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"
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"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
Delight


"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife."
Worth


"The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour."
Power


"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."
Art


"Consult duty not events."
Duty


"There is nothing on earth divine except humanity."
Earth


"Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."
Religion


"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."
Love


"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."
Conscience


"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."
Self-Love
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