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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
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Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general.
If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions;
the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good.
We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality.
All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
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The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception.
Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.
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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
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I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
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Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
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True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.
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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
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Where the guilt is doubtful, a presumption of innocence should in general be admitted.
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