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- She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it…
- It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was…
- But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was…
- Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that…
- The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon…
- My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a…
- Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
- In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of…
- The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if…
- Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
- He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and…
- What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
- Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have…
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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