981 private quotes tagged men

“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” — Sun Tzu

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“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.” — Plato

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“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.” — Voltaire

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“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” — Aristotle

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“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” — William Blake

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“Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.” — George S. Patton

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“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.” — C. S. Lewis

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.” — Robert Frost

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“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.” — Francis Bacon

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“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.” — Francis Bacon

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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” — C. S. Lewis

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