"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true."

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

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Produce great men, the rest follows."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

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"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

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"What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another."

Henry John Temple, British Statesman

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"No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods."

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"What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice."

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"To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach."

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

"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."

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

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

"Produce great men, the rest follows."

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise."

"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."

"What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another."

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"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves."

"No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods."

"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion."

"Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states."

"What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice."

"Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law."

"To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach."