Man Quotes
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
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The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
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A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves.
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A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
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Every man is his own hell.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
