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Men Quotes by Gene Wolfe
- We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in…
- Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns…
- What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.
- We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation,…
- There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.
- Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
- A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant…
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