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Man Quotes by Stendhal
- A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing…
- The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and…
- The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or…
- Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
- To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
- The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse…
- For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should…
- The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or…
- Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another…
- Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
- Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
More Man Quotes
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle