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Men Quotes by James Clavell
- It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.
- Horses are far worse than men for treachery...
- How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same…
- Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that…
- Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?
- It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to…
- Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's…
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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