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Men Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin…
- Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were…
- Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
- George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God…
- Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter…
- Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
- Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people,…
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- 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