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His Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is…
- You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
- This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
- You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
- Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from…
- As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of…
- To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
- He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold