"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

Man, Order

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Man, Sense

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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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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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have."

Arthur E. Morgan, American Public Servant

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"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."

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"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."

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"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."

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"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."

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"Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have."

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"Poets wish to profit or to please."

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

"Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born."

"A word once uttered can never be recalled."

"It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while."

"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."

"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."

"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."

"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."

"Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too."