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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events…
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet…
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Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the…
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret…
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent,…
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Language makes infinite use of finite media.
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Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who…
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,…
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to…
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns…
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To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks…
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The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
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dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities.
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If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what…
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