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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

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But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

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Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

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Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

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A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

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I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

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So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

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It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.

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The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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