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Men Quotes by Arthur Machen
- Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the…
- If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in…
- It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand…
- There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a…
- We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am…
More Men 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
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle