Man Quotes
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Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.
Aristotle -
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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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Will Durant -
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
Alexander Graham Bell -
Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
Henry Ward Beecher -
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
Abraham Lincoln -
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
William R. Alger
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A rogue can generally express himself better than an honest man.
G.A. Henty -
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol -
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 -
Man believes he has will: this is his illusion.
Alfred Richard Orage -
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
Michelangelo Antonioni -
I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.
Al Swearengen
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The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure.
Aristotle -
A man has a right to want to live.
Dalia Sofer -
One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.
Thomas A. Edison -
I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.
Hermann Hesse -
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
Albert Einstein
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
John Milton -
For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.
Plutarch -
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 -
Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
George Bernard Shaw