Plato Quotes, Men Quotes, Order Quotes

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

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He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Men Quotes , Speech Quotes

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

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Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

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The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

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What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

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A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

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What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Science Quotes , Men Quotes

PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Men Quotes , World Quotes

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

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The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Stars Quotes , Men Quotes

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Flower Quotes , Men Quotes

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Life Quotes , Men Quotes

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Men Quotes , May Quotes

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

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