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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

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The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

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Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

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Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

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For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

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I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.

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Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?

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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

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The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

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Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

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That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.

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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

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Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

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Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

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