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- A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
- The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life…
- Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the…
- To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we…
- It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
- An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
- Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
- We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
- When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
- It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil…
- Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid;…
- All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
- Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
- With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
- Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.
- Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is…
- Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less…
- Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn…
- At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into…
- Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor…
- Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man…
- A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
- To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no…
- The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
- Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him…
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