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Man Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
- A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
- A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a…
- Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
- There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of…
- In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart…
- People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being…
- People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which…
- The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which…
- The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by…
- A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it
More Man Quotes
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- 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