Man Quotes
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Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
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Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?
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For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.
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The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
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The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.
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The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.
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He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
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Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
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I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.
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O SON OF MAN! I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.
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Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?'
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The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.
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Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.
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The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
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Love between a man and woman is war.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
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I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador...
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The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
