Men
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women merely adored.
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
A man chases a woman until she catches him.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
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