Man
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
The Dyer's Hand
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
The Prolific and the Devourer
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
The Dyer's Hand
We are all children of Christ, through his grandson Rousseau. This is on our mother's side, also, on our father's date back to some clear pagan god from whom our near ancestors degenerated. The mother in us is more than the father. As in a house governed by women, we are outgoverned well.
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness
There are in every man, at all times, two simultaneous tendencies, one toward God, the other toward Satan
To be a serviceable man has always seemed to me something quite repulsive
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him
Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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