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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
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"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them."
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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
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"The proper study of mankind is woman."
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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."
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"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it."
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
Experience
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
Wisdom
"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."
Progress
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
Life
"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
Ideas
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."
Art
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
Courage
"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
Mankind
"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
Religion
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."
Death
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