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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
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Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
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Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient - perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
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Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
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God forgive us—but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovèd over all.
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God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
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Gold is good in its place but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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Good and bad men are less than they seem.
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Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric
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