Man Quotes
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The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
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I realise that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors - but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch, in the next 200 years, will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. My regret will have been that I could not behold its demise.
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What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.
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Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
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I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.
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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.
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Show me a man without regrets and I’ll show you a man without a conscience.
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That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is....
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Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
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Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
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Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Don't be looking at all the other things. Start with you.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim - At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.
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That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
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Love is bullshit and weird and stupid, but shit, man, if you have love, everybody should leave you alone and let you keep it for as long as you can.
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Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.
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Never trust a man who reads only one book.
