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Man Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in…
- There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
- Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
- The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in…
- When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
- For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.
- The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
- At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary…
- No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a…
- Can man be free if woman be a slave?
- Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through…
- He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.
- No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using…
- In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and…
- I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and…
- A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the…
- Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude…
- History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
- The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
- Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a…
- We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,…
- Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.
- A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.
- Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- 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