"Man, an animal that makes bargains."

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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."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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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

Man, Men, God, Statesman

"Produce great men, the rest follows."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Man, Men, Rest

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Man, May, Trade

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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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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"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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"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."

Education

"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."

Self-Awareness

"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."

Empathy

"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."

Reality

"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."

Wonder

"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."

Life

"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."

News

"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."

Ambition

"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."

Mind

"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."

Fear