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He Quotes by William Godwin
- Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows…
- The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
- If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because…
- He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
- Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
- He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or…
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle