981 private quotes tagged men

“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“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.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.” — Aeschylus

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“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.” — Voltaire

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“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Produce great men, the rest follows.” — Walt Whitman

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“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.” — Voltaire

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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.” — H. L. Mencken

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“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.” — Plato

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“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Men are only as great as they are kind.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.” — Albert Camus

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“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.” — Plato

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“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.” — Sun Tzu

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“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.” — Victor Hugo

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