Man
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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
No man was ever wise by chance.
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
The healthy man does not torture others — generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
I know that Donald Trump is a smart man.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer — or maybe president.
The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.
Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
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