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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

– EuripidesRate it:

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

– Erich FrommRate it:

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

– Reinhold NiebuhrRate it:

Man's character is his fate.

– HeraclitusRate it:

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

– Émile DurkheimRate it:

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

– HesiodRate it:

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

– Alexander MacLarenRate it:

Man's desires are greater than the earth. The end of his desires only ends with his end.

– Alen JoyRate it:

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

– Paul ValeryRate it:

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

– Frederick DouglassRate it:

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

– Blaise PascalRate it:

Man's life is short and transitory because they devote most of their lives also to what is transient and momentary.

– L.F. MagisterRate it:

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

– Erich FrommRate it:

Man's main task is to give birth to himself.

– Erich FrommRate it:

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down.

– Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai BabaRate it:

Man's mind is nothing more than “Grey Matter.” Yet to the greatest scientist, it is the most complex challenge in the world of science .”

– Jamela DunbarRate it:

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

– Desiderius ErasmusRate it:

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

– Sri da AvabhasRate it:

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

– Adam SmithRate it:

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.

– Lord Byron, Don JuanRate it:

Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

– Francis BaconRate it:

Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.

– Octavio PazRate it:

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now, are you kidding ? All that I ever did was just jiggle.

– Elvis PresleyRate it:

Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young wife. But a woman?s time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to marry her. She sits at home, speculating on the probability of her marriage.

– AristophanesRate it:

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