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"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them."
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
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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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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
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"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
Man
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
Insult
"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."
Health
"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
Pleasure
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Courage
"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
Business
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
Man
"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds."
Idleness
"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."
Age
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