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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly. For God, whosoever he be (if haply there be any other but the world itself), and in what part soever resident, all sense He is, all sight, all hearing: He is the whole of the life and of the soul, all of Himself.
- Good Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
- Fortune
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am appalled by Le Pen's anti-Semitic past and feelings. A man who says the Holocaust is no more than a footnote in history is beyond my comprehension.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The test of any man lies in action.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
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- Nov 07, 2020