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- Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
- It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
- Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
- The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
- Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
- No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
- Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
- Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
- Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to…
- American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central…
- In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
- I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted…
- Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each…
- I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women…
- I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his…
- Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed…
- By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the…
- At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education,…
- A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming…
- The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
- Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.
- Man loves most that which is his own.
- The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — 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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