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It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.
God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
Say what you will about Leona Helmsley, when it comes to standing trial, she's twice the man Jim Bakker is.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.
In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.
There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.
I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'
Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.
The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.