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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.


George Berkeley
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza
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Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.


Robert Green Ingersoll
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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.
Lew Wasserman
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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
F. L. Lucas
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.


Alexander Smith
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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen Rowland
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It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Helen Rowland
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.


Alexis Carrel
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Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.


Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.


Alexander Pope
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.


Napoleon Bonaparte
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What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Virgil
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Josh Billings
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A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann
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