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" Quotes and Sayings About man

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Useless Reason Man
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Man Desires Live long Old
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A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

Wise man Less Alone
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Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

Good manners Art People Comfortable
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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Punning Talent Man Despise
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Observation is an old man’s memory.

Observation Old man's Memory
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There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them

Patterns Human behavior Success Life
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Pride Pages Written Read
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is

Life Complicated Moment Man
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The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

Metaphor Fertile Power Man
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The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Human being Prefers Contours Heart
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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Live Time Believes Creation
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Man's real treasure is the treasure of his mistakes, piled up stone by stone through thousands of years

Man's Treasure Mistakes Years
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent

Poet Live Invent Human life
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The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

Heart Man Excellent Supreme
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Excellence Man Woman Himself
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts

Words Man Conceal Thoughts
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The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with God, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

History Mankind God Understand
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If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Live Human beings Power
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But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

Truths Repeated Times Oblivion
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the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Human being Lack Egoism Born
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Jealousy Pain Feels Loves
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Contented mind Blessing Man World
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn

Books Legacies Mankind Generation
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Sculpture Marble Education Soul
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Man's Care Reproaches Heart
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover

Human life Friendship Enjoyment Discover
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Man Believes Virtue Truth
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Valuable Man Attention Infirmities
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Question Pleasures Life Happy
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Sunshine Smiles Humanity Life's
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Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Crime Contemtible World Inconsistency
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Man Consider Wants
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Knowledge Virtue Truly Raises
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion

Mind Man Power Dominion
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Riches Pride Luxury Heart
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The mind of man is capable of anything.

Mind Man Capable
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put it's trust in life!

Heart Hope Love Life
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

Woman Difficult Dealings Men
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The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

Mind Capable Past Future
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You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Judge Man Foes Friends
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Belief Understands Artful Self-knowledge
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The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one.

Man Illusions
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A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.

Woman's Tenderness Virility Action
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Age Illusions Life Human race
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence

Path Aspiration Human being Existence
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A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

Nation Religion Man Breath
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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

Propaganda Manipulated Confident Free will
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Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
Man Honors Conquers Defends
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

Mankind Resilient Atrocities Tomorrow
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