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Men Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
- And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a…
- A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees…
- In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army…
- I've been a free man.
- The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
- I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary…
- The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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