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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
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The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.
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What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.
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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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As a man's yes and no, so his character. A prompt yes or no marks the firm, the quick, the decided character; and a slow, the cautious or timid.
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A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity is superior to any man of equal capacity.
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To know man, borrow the ear of the blind and the eye of the deaf.
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The more honest a man is, the less he affects the air of a saint.
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Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
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The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
November 15, 1741
Died:
January 2, 1801
(aged 59)
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