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| To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. | | Joseph Addison | |
| To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all | | Karl Kraus | |
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| Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.' | | Albert Schweitzer | |
| We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it | | Jean de la Bruyere | |
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| When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions | | Joseph Addison | |
| When a man's talk is commonplace and his writings uncommon, it means that his talent lies in the place from which he borrows it, and not in himself | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities | | David Hume | |
| Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average. | | Garrison Keillor | |
| Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance | | Bible | |
| Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own. | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. | | James Anthony Froude | |
| Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. | | Joseph Conrad | |
| You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. | | Adlai E. Stevenson | |
| You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. | | Joseph Conrad | |
