Darwinian Man though well-behaved At best is only a monkey shaved!
A human being isn't an orchid he must draw something from the soil he grows in.
I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.
I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself the maker of his life his reward his punishment.
We are members one of another.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.
The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works he votes generally he prays but h...
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.
Man an animal that makes bargains.
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion a...
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