#men

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#grief #hardship #misfortune #sorrow #suffering

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power. ↗

— Michael Foot

#reading #men

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sex is useful - for creation and control. Character becomes more important when you begin meeting men. ↗

— Michelle February

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All men by nature desire to know. ↗

— Aristotle

#philosophy #wisdom #men

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#exaltation #ruin #success #men

He was one of those capital M Men. ↗

— Lauren Dane

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Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.)" [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.] ↗

— William Shakespeare

#stage #universe #world #men

Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth, we will catch only a fleeting glimpse of it -- in the study of sacred writings, in other human beings, in liturgy, and in communion with strangers. But these moments remain us that our fellow men and women are themselves sacred; there is something about them taht is worthy of absolute reverence, is in the last resort mysterious, and we will always elude us. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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