"Men should strive to think much and know little."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."

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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."

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"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged."

"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich."

"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all."

"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."

"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."

"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds."

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."

"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."

"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."

"It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others."