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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

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To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

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She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.

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I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

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O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

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The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

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Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

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The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

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In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.

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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

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The earth continues to go round, whether it's the man who kills the tiger or the tiger who eats the man. The stronger asserts his will, it's the law of nature. The world doesn't change; its laws are eternal.

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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

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