Quotes

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
― Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Quotes
Men
Levers
Interest
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The more a man knows, the less he talks. - Voltaire
Men
Knows
Voltaire Quotes
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Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. — Frank Pittman
Fatherhood Quotes
Perfect
Men
Frank Pittman
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
― Arthur Conan Doyle
Life
Men
Mind
Invent
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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
― Arthur Conan Doyle
Spiritual
Men
Intellectual
Today
Condition
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
― François Rabelais
Laughter
Writing
Men
Courageous
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
― François Rabelais
Wine
Men
Noble Man
Good
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
― François Rabelais
Men
Charity
Vexation
Benevolence
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Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
― Jules Verne
Men
Creative
Instinct
Destruction
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
― Jules Verne
Inspirational
Real
Men
Imagine
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
― Jules Verne
Men
Lightning
Littles
Little
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
― Jules Verne
Lonely
Ocean
Men
Sides
Terrestrial
Immense
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
― Jules Verne
Men
Perfect
Contented
Never
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The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
― Nâzım Hikmet
Life
Men
Long
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A man is responsible for his ignorance.
― Milan Kundera
Ignorance
Men
Responsible
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a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
― Milan Kundera
Men
Possessed
Always Smile
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I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.
― John Steinbeck
Men
House
Despair
Feed
Man
Dissatisfaction
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I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.
― John Steinbeck
Men
Hatred
Together
Apparent
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The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
― John Steinbeck
Moved On
Men
Fields
Roads
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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
― Jean-Paul Sartre
Men
Purpose
Action
Purposes