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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
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Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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