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- Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom…
- Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
- An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but…
- For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
- The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
- Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
- No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost…
- Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider…
- He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
- A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,…
- Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling…
- Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that…
- No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man…
- The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill…
- Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes,…
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with…
- No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in…
- Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
- In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
- It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
- A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
- The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
- The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
- Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
- A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings,…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — 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
- 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
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle