“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
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“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”
“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”
“But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.”
“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.”
“The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.”
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”
“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”
“Men are only as great as they are kind.”
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
“Great hopes make great men.”
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
“Produce great men, the rest follows.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.”
“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”
“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”