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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
Though of erect nature, man is far above the plants. For man's superior part, his head, is turned toward the superior part of the ...
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we ...
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals.
Cow and horse dung, as muck goes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grai ...
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the devel ...
Man was kreated a little lower than the angells and has bin gittin a little lower ever sinse.
Cruelty has a Human Heart,
And jealousy a Human Face;
Terror the Human Form Divine,
And secrecy the Human Dress.
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keep ...
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they canno ...
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