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- Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever…
- The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will…
- Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
- A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through…
- Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps…
- Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
- Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
- Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
- Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
- Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can…
- There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
- The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
- With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
- Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
- Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
- Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.
- Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.
- As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
- The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
- In every man there is something of all men.
- Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
- A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
- That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
- The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the…
- I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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- 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