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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

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... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

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a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Simplicity Quotes

I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.

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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

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There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'

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O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

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There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Doubt Quotes

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Photography Quotes , Men Quotes

You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?

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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

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Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

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