"Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers."
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"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."
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"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."
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"The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain."
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"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
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"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."
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"He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent."
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"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
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"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."
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"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."
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"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."
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"We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence."
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"Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux."
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"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."
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"For a truly religious man nothing is tragic."
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"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."
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"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
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"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
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"May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense."
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"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse."
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