Man
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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.