981 private quotes tagged men

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

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

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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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“Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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“Bad men are full of repentance.” — Aristotle

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“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie

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

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

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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” — Winston Churchill

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“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.” — George Washington

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“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.” — Nelson Mandela

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“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.” — Plato

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“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” — George Edward Moore

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“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.” — Coco Chanel

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“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” — Joseph Conrad

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“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” — Roald Dahl

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