Man Quotes
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
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If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.
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Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
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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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When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.
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When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
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...the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.
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A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.
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The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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I am quite a positive man in real life. In fact, even when I have a hard discussion with somebody, it lasts only five minutes. Then I forget. And I forgive everything. But at the same time, as I am such an easygoing guy, to create something more intense, I have to be auto-destructive on the making of a film. And this will guarantee some density.
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It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
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A silent man will die in the silence of his foolishness.
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But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.
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I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.
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Come on, man, I got a full beard!
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It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.