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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 successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
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Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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No man can help another without helping himself.
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No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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