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Man Quotes by Robert Graves
- To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to…
- Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.…
- Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering…
- Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome…
- Entrance and exit wounds aresilvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood. The one-armed man…
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- 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