Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen. Essays
Man’s being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it. History as a System
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment? Discourses
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Bleak House
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