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Men Quotes by Primo Levi
- Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short,…
- The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent,…
- They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would…
- To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded.…
- We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil…
- There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
- At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that man is bound…
- Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable.…
- I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.
- He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the…
- Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
- A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and…
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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
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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