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- A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing…
- The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and…
- The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or…
- A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
- Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
- To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
- If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
- The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse…
- For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should…
- The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or…
- Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another…
- Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
- Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
- Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women…
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- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare