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- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
- No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their…
- The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
- Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
- Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
- Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
- The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
- Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
- The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
- The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
- The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
- In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in…
- As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in…
- The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
- When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman…
- The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
- Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.…
- To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
- It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
- Men become old, but they never become good.
- Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
- Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a…
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