981 private quotes tagged men

“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Force always attracts men of low morality.” — Albert Einstein

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“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.” — Blaise Pascal

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“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.” — Plato

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“Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.” — Aeschylus

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“Produce great men, the rest follows.” — Walt Whitman

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“'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.” — Voltaire

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“Men are only as great as they are kind.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.” — Voltaire

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“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.” — Sun Tzu

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“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.” — Victor Hugo

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“If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.” — Ayn Rand

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“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.” — Albert Camus

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“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“All religions have been made by men.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.” — Francis Bacon

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“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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