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- A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
- The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life…
- To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we…
- It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
- An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
- Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
- We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
- When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
- All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
- Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
- With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
- Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.
- Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn…
- Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor…
- Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man…
- A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
- To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no…
- The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
- Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him…
- Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
- The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
- Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
- War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men,…
- God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.…
- Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is…
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