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And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.

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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

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Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

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Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

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After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

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Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.

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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

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If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

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Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.

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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

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Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

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Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

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A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.

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