Man Quotes
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Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.
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If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
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The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
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I thank God for making me a man.
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
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A normal man is one who has not only actualized his potentialities but has freed himself from his subjectivity.
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No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.
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It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.
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Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.
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A man who runs away from death will run into death.
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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
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The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.
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What man is, only his history tells.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
