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Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Related topics: Wisdom
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
Habits age men before their time.
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Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour
when every one has to throw off his mask?
Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?
Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight
in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?
I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others
that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...
In every man there is something which to a certain degree
prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;
and this may be the case in so high a degree,
he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life
which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,
and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully
to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer
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