Quotes 5281 till 5300 of 10692.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
Pensees (1669) -
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Philosophy and Politics -
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
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Man's mind and not his master makes him slave.
To the Spirit of Byron -
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
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Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
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Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
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Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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Many can argue, not many converse.
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
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