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Men Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
- Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my…
- When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived…
- No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
- A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in…
- Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through…
- It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
- Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of…
- Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
- Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
- O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more…
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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