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  • The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Science Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Strong Quotes , Men Quotes
  • He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Confucius Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Party Quotes , Men Quotes
  • As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Men Quotes