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Men Quotes by Edith Hamilton
- When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built…
- Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the…
- Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
- I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the…
- Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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