“Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.”
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“Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.”
“Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.”
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
“It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.”
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
“There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”
“Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.”
“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”
“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”
“If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.”
“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.”
“Men blaspheme what they do not know.”
“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”
“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”
“Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.”
“If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”
“Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.”
“Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.”
“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”