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Man is his own star; and the soul that canRender an honest and a perfect manCommands all light, all influence, all fate.Nothing to him falls early, or too late.Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
John Fletcher, Upon an
To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is justly pronounced by Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities.
Samuel Johnson
A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
Aristotle
I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.
Albert Einstein
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.
Blaise Pascal
A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as a tree as it ought to be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him better.
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot
Oh, about beer I never lie. A man who lies about beer makes enemies.
Stephen King
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
George Meredith
There are two laws discrete Not reconciled, Law for man, and law for thing.
A king asked a holy man, Do you remember about me? The holy man answered, Yes, I think about you when I forget about God.
Leo Tolstoy
He wasn't a man of erudition, yet very quickly grasped the significance of this or that problem for the state at large and for his own popularity rating. As one far removed from the sciences, he had tremendous respect for the opinions of scientists.
Yevgeniy Chazov
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
Henry David Thoreau
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner
