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Men Quotes by Jean Paul
- Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
- It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.
- What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the…
- Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.
- The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.
- Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
- Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
- A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
- Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
- I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
- Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
- Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
- Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory…
- Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute…
- Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
- As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
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