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If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.

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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

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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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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

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Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

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No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

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The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.

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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

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The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

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Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

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He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

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How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

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Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

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