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But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

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OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

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Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.

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Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

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Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

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The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

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When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

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There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

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So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

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A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

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Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

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