Man
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Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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