"Mankind led on by gods err all too easily."
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"Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment."
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"The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on."
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"It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being."
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"Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition."
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"Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd."
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"The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage."
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"What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?"
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"What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know."
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"Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else."
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"It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth."
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"Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived."
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"Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind."
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"All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone."
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"Nationalism is the measels of mankind."
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"The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state"
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"In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me."
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"Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history."
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"Futurity is the great concern of mankind."
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"For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever"
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