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The proper study of mankind is books
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please
Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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