“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
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“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.”
“In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.”
“History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”
“Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.”
“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!”
“There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.”
“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”
“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”
“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”
“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.”
“There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.”
“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.”
“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”
“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.”
“Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.”
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”