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A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Sophocles

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

Samuel Richardson

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Sri Aurobindo

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

Tertullian

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

John Rawls

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Horace

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

John W. Campbell Jr.

Money means nothing to a real man.

James Clavell

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

William Hazlitt

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

Etta James

I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

Jesse Metcalfe

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

William Dean Howells

I am for love, whether it's a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.

Rob Bell

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace

Amanda M. Thrasher

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Virginia Woolf

The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks.

Yiddish

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