“Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.”
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“Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.”
“Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.”
“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”
“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.”
“It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.”
“Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.”
“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”
“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.”
“Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.”
“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.”
“Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.”
“If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.”
“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'”
“The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.”
“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”
“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.”
“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.”
“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.”
“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
“It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.”
“The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.”