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I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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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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Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

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All great men are partially inspired.

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Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

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Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.

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Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

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A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

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The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

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And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

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