“It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.”
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“Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.”
“There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.”
“No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.”
“We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.”
“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.”
“We cannot learn men from books.”
“I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.”
“Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.”
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
“The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.”
“Study men, not historians.”
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.”
“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
“The most positive men are the most credulous.”
“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”
“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
“I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.”
“No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.”
“I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.”
“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”