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  • Seneca It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Francis Bacon It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Lord George Byron It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billie Jean King It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Theodore Parker It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Jane Austen It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Anna Wickham It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
    Anna Wickham
     
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  • Benjamin Disraeli It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Seneca It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Samuel Johnson It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Martin Luther King It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Baruch Spinoza It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Ayn Rand It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Robert Bolt It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
    Robert Bolt
     
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  • T. S. Eliot It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry. That is a life.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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