"Culture makes all men gentle."

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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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"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom."

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"The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess."

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"'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'"

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"Even God lends a hand to honest boldness."

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"Whom the gods love dies young."

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"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor."

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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."

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"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom."

"The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess."

"'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'"

"Even God lends a hand to honest boldness."

"Whom the gods love dies young."

"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor."

"Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado."

"The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind."

"The character of a man is known from his conversations."

"Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil."