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Man Quotes by Anne Carson
- You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit…
- Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
- A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
- The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle