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Man Quotes by Thomas Hardy
- The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
- In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour…
- Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
- Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish…
- Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
- Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such…
- ...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and…
- Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man…
- --the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any…
- Always wanting another man than your own.
- In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour…
- One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man but as an instrument of destiny
- That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
- You was a good man, and did good things.
- Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body?
- The only superiority in women that is tolerable to therival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes…
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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