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Man Quotes by Horace Mann
- If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
- But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of…
- A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,…
- He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
- He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
- In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of…
- A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,…
- The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual…
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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 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