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The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

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Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.

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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

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Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

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Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

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People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.

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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

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The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

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The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

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If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.

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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

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A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

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Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.

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A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

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Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

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Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

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The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.

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