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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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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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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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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."
Achievement
"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."
Life
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
Man
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
Friendship
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
Friendship
"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."
Loss
"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
Gain
"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."
Man
"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."
Time
"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
Death
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