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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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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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Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.
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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 are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.
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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 hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
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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 who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
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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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