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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 



Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.




No man is weak by choice.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 



No man is weak by choice.




Man is the future of man.
Francis Ponge / 






The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
Albert Camus - Chroniques / 



The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.




Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / 



Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.




There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
Albert Camus - The Plague / 






People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.
Albert Einstein / 



People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

Image attribution  Background photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 






Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.
Paul Valéry / 






I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me.
Publius Terentius Afer - Heautontimoroumenos / 






There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince / 






Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson / 






We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
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Any man can make mistakes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - Philippicae / 



Any man can make mistakes.




I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 



I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.




Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 



Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 






Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères / 






No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.
Denis Diderot - Encyclopédie / 



No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.




It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 






Man is a sacred thing for Man.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 






Man is not born, but made man.
Desiderius Erasmus / 



Man is not born, but made man.




Joy is the transition of man from a less to a greater perfection.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 






Action, with all its uncertainties, is like an ever-present reminder that men, though they must die, are not born in order to die, but to begin something new.
Hannah Arendt / 






So many men, so many opinions.
Publius Terentius Afer / 






There is nothing so beautiful and legitimate as to play the man well and properly.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr. / 






when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism / 






Man, too, has wings, he has imagination.
Soren Kierkegaard / 










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