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Men Quotes by Ivo Andric
- Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I…
- That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was…
- Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
- Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are…
- There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot…
- To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged…
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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
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- 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