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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

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Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

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Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

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Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

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Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

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It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

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Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

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When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

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We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

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Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

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The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Men Quotes

Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Intellectual Quotes

If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

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No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

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