“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
— Voltaire
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Many men go fishing all of their
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
— Charles Spurgeon
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange
“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.”
— Adam Smith
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Men often take their imagination for their
“Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”
— Blaise Pascal
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Our duty, as men and women, is
“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Men rise from one ambition to another:
“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A wise man should so write (though
“A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.”
— Thomas Hobbes
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Men in general are quick to believe
“Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.”
— Julius Caesar
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Men ought either to be indulged or
“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
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The only thing necessary for the triumph
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke
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