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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

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Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

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It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

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For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

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Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

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A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

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There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

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Conquer the angry man by love.

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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

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Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

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[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,' and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.

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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

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An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

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Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

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Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

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Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.

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