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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

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In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.

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That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

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They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

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A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

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I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

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In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

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Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

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I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

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The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.

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