"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

"It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend."

"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

"Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary."

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

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"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

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"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not."