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- A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
- A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but…
- Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
- Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
- Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of…
- A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a…
- The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful…
- The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit…
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and…
- The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
- No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
- The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown…
- The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they…
- A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates…
- A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man…
- There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal…
- The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins…
- A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the…
- Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the…
- As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be
- Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
- A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
- A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it…
- A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.
- No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
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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