"Poor man. Poor mankind."
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"Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?"
"By and large books are mankind's best invention."
"We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted."
"The populace drags down the gods to their own level."
"Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call."
"Man is the dwarf of himself."
"Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind."
"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth."
"The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life."
"It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power."
"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest."
"To err from the right path is common to mankind."
"One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors."
"The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it."
"I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State."
"Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight."
"I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion."
"That which is inherent in man is his virtue."
"Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others."