Man
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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