Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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