Quotes 5661 till 5680 of 11281.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.
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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Men expect too much, do too little.
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
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Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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