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- If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them derive their whole pleasure from each other, they would inevitably…
- In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
- The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that…
- Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other
- That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
- There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy…
- He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty
- Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of…
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
- Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
- Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions
- There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has…
- It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.
- Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] .…
- As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it
- Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his…
- Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true
- No man heartily hates him at who he can laugh
- Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which…
- Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot…
- He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
- No man is by nature the property of another. The defendant is, therefore, by nature free.
- Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his…
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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
- 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