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To laugh is proper to man.






There is only one science to teach to children. It is that of man's duties.






Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.






Man is what he eats.






How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.






A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.






May all men remember that they are brothers!






Each man must invent his own path.






We respect a man who respects himself.






The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.






No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.






Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.






All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.






Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.






Man is by nature a political animal.






Desire is the essence of a man.






We should expect the best and the worst from mankind, as from the weather.






I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.






Men at some time are masters of their fates;
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.







The passions have taught men reason.



The passions have taught men reason.

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Man is nothing but the series of his acts.






To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.






Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.






Every human being should be an artist. Everything can become beautiful art.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.






Man is condemned to be free.






Man is the shepherd of Being.






All men by nature desire knowledge.






The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.






What man is without fault, and what king without weakness?










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