Man Quotes
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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
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One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state.
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Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic.
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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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[On his father] He was a man of another age, really, holding a set of values that differed in essence from those that most men hold today. The son of a pioneer settler, he grew up believing along with most of the men of his world that a man’s physical strength was his measure.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.
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Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.
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What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
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I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.
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Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
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For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history.
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What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.
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A man must look to the muddy pit wherefrom was taken the clay that moulds him.
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Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.
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Don’t worry about being normal. It’s an awful thing to aspire to.
