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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
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Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.
Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 7, 1 -
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it - or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
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Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.
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