Man Quotes
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
Mahatma Gandhi
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Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
Thomas Aquinas
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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.
David McCord
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By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?
Christmas Humphreys
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The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Aristotle
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We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
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Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.
K. J. Bishop
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I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man’s talents than the upbringing of his son.
Conn Iggulden
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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?
Confucius
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No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.
George Davis Herron
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What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.
George Eliot
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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
George Bernard Shaw
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A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
George Bernard Shaw
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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
Plutarch
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Thomas A. Edison
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Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
Albert Einstein
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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
Ernest Hemingway
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
George Bernard Shaw
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God became man so that man might become a god.
Athanasius
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The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
Sophocles