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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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All mankind love a lover.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.