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• By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be far apart.
• Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them apart.
  -- Confucius (K'ung tsze or Kung Fu Tse) (551-479 BCE)...
• Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them apart. -- Cervante
• Practice in time becomes second nature.
• A selection from the Taoist Writings: Lao-Tan asked Confuciu
  `What do you mean by benevolence and righteousness?...
• All men are different, but husbands are all alike.
• There is no difference between man and man, as there is between man and beast or between man and God, that makes one by nature the ruler of another.
  This does not mean that there are not wide differences among men, or that it is not often to the advantage of some to be ruled by others....
• Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
  -- Molier, from the Mise...
• Men argue, nature acts. -- Voltaire