Man Quotes
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.
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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
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The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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“Glazed brick, white mortar, and blue roof-tiles do not make a house beautiful; carved rosewood, gold cloth, and clear green jade do not furnish a house with grace; a man of cultivated mind makes a house of mud and wattle beautiful; a woman, even with a pock-marked face; if refined of heart, fills a house with grace. -House of Exile”
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A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.
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Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
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God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
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Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.
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I found him an impressive man, and a very difficult man.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
