"A man of pleasure is a man of pains."

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

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

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

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

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"The house of laughter makes a house of woe."

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"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety."

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"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."

Learning

"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame."

Art

"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."

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"A Christian is the highest style of man."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

Explore more quotes by Edward Young

"The house of laughter makes a house of woe."

"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety."

"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."

"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame."

"By night an atheist half believes in a God."

"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."

"A friend is worth all hazards we can run."

"All men think all men mortal, but themselves."

"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."

"A Christian is the highest style of man."