William Shakespeare Quotes, Men Quotes, Age Quotes

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

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The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

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Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

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Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

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The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference between men and women is one of physical function- one begets, the other bears children. Apart from that, they both can and should perform the same functions - though men on a whole, perform them better and should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in this way society will get the best value from both.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

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There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

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Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

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What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

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