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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

Man,

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Man, Men, Society

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Right, Wind

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Man, Promise

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Man,

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Men, Company, Grief

"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Man, Sea, Shipwreck

"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Men, God, Statesman

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Man,

"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

Man, Men

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"You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing."

Time

"No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public."

Man

"I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket."

Politics

"The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity."

Identity

"Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public."

Politics

"The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation."

War

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain."

Love

"The longer the title, the less important the job."

Job

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

Man