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"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."
"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
"Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist."
"How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper."
"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is."
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