"Men should strive to think much and know little."

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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"No man may make another free."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

Man, May

"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Man, Men, Fact

"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"

Peter Jennings, Canadian Journalist

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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."

Kate Millett, American Activist

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"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds."

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"Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly."

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"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."

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"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."

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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."

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"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."

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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

"No man may make another free."

"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."

"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"

"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."

"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."

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"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds."

"Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly."

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."

"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."

"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."

"The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged."

"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."

"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."

"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."