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- Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
- One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
- Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
- I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
- Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend…
- Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can…
- Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.
- This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of…
- There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
- By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
- Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
- I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if…
- Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
- Beware of the man who has no enemies.
- No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
- The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
- Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
- In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
- I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a…
- Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.
- A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.
- I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
- Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough…
- No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- 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
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