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  • Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Apology Quotes , Men Quotes
  • If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes
  • In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Law Quotes
  • If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Unhappy Quotes
  • We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Believe Quotes , Men Quotes