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Men Quotes by Knut Hamsun
- Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners.…
- But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no…
- In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of…
- When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
- Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their…
- Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and…
- No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man…
- No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
- The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest - who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being,…
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- 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
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- 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