"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."

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"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."

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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Men exist for the sake of one another."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Let no such man be trusted."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

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"What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command."

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"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution."

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"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."

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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."

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"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."

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"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."

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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Let no such man be trusted."

"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."

"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."

"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

Explore more quotes by Henry Ellis

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

"What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command."

"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution."

"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."

"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."

"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."

"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."

"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"

"Man lives by imagination."

"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."