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Letter "M" » Men
«Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.»
«Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions»
«Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Men,
Punishment,
Reward
| Keywords:
behaving, defined, justifying, punished, rewarded
«Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.»
«Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Civil rights,
Justice,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Men,
Morality
| Keywords:
appetites, civil liberties, civil liberty, disposition, liberties, qualified, rapacity
«Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Men,
Richness,
Social service,
Solidarity
| Keywords:
rewards, service
«Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
superstitions, The central
«Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
aptitude, constituted, undertakes
«Men are respectable only as they respect»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Men,
Respect
| Keywords:
respectable
«Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
bear on, bring to, bring to bear, inept, pitiful
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