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- Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a…
- A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
- Every man carries the entire form of human condition.
- The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty,…
- Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
- No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
- And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man…
- Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that…
- 'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself…
- Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
- Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from…
- There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment…
- No man is a hero to his own valet.
- When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
- A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
- God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
- A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
- A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.
- A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
- A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place…
- The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet…
- A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
- The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is
- Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the…
- The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and…
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