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«Man is born to eat»
Author: Craig Claiborne | About: Food, Men
«Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.»
«Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.»
Author: Heraclitus of Ephesus | About: Men | Keywords: achieves, nearly, seriousness
«Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.»
«Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence»
«Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits»
«Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it»
Author: Bible | About: Men | Keywords: bustle, bustles, bustling, Fro, heaped-up, heaps, to and fro
«Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre | About: Men | Keywords: not yet, sum, totality
«Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Men | Keywords: dozens, flea
«Man is a tool-using Animal.... Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Men | Keywords: animal, nowhere, tool, tools, using