"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."

Man, Men, Thought, Ambition, Tongue

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"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"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

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"What, if as said, man is a bubble."

Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman Author

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"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."

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"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."

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"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal."

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"The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal."

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"No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests."

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"By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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

"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."

"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."

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

"What, if as said, man is a bubble."

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"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."

"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."

"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal."

"The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal."

"He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing."

"Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself."

"We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve."

"Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible."

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"By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed."