“It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.”
— Camille Paglia
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“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
— Edward Young
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“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”
— William Shakespeare
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“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.”
— Woodrow Wilson
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“Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.”
— Samuel Butler
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“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.”
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.”
— Brooke Foss Westcott
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“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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