Quotes 601 till 620 of 13894.
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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.
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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
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Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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