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"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."
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"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."
People
"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."
Man
"Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."
Fire
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
People
"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
War
"There is nothing permanent except change."
Change
"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."
Control
"To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just."
God
"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."
Soul
"Much learning does not teach understanding."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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Personal Development
"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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Personal Development
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