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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
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Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
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Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
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Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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