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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
The American Magazine, Volume 85 -
The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
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The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...
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