Makes Men Quotes
71 quotes by 58 authors
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
— Saint Augustine
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
— Lord Byron
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's…
— Louis Aragon
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Adversity makes men remember God.
— Livy
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
— Ovid
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Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.
— Pat Buchanan
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
— William Hazlitt
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Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.
— Thomas Jefferson
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. . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can be permitted to…
— Allen Drury
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.
— Ovid
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
— Ovid
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To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare…
— Elizabeth Charles
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What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be…
— Samuel Smiles
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