"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

Man, Reason, Sleep

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"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"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?"

bell hooks, American Critic

Man, Men, Columbus

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

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

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"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."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Man, Men, Want

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one."

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"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."

Perception

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."

Nationalism

"Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler."

Family

"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"

Life

"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."

Self

"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure."

Love

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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?"

"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."

"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."

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

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"Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen."

"Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce."

"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty."

"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one."

"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."

"Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler."

"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"

"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."

"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure."