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"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."
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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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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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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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"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
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"I intend to put up with nothing that I can put."
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"I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock."
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"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
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"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."
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"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
Poetry

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
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"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."
Man

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"
Philosophy

"Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?"
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