Man Quotes
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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.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
Baruch Spinoza
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I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.
Sergio Leone
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A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
Baruch Spinoza
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The war also made its way into love songs, including such kitsch classics as “Your Lips Are No Man’s Land but Mine” and “If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany!"
Ben Yagoda
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon
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A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
Evagrius Ponticus
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Every man knows the smell of his own fart.
Confucius
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A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
Socrates
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Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.
Aristotle