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- Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was…
- I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
- For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he…
- Where men can't live gods fare no better.
- What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence…
- The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have…
- He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no…
- Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again…
- Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen…
- Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My…
- Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of…
- The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the…
- He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight…
- But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why…
- This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
- The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in…
- A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but…
- Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to…
- Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it…
- If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained…
- And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another…
- Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can…
- The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain…
- Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they…
- They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
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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
- 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