"The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god."
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"I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track."
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"A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel."
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"Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast."
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"A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast."
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"The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god."
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"Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us."
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"The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts."
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"A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free."
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"A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast."
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"When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human."
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"Either a beast or a god."
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"Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast."
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"I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on."
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"What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth."
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"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more."
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"We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free."
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"Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man."
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"So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves."
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"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
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