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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

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Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.

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I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

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The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

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We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

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Shallow men believe in luck.

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The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

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Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

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Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or culture to live in despotism? Are they alone never to know freedom and never even to have a choice in the matter?

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The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

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When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

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...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

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