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Men

«Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.»
Author: Antoine Rivarol | About: Men | Keywords: complaining, fearing, reasoning, spends
«Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money»
Author: Ernst Levy | About: Art, Men | Keywords: chemistry, physics, recover
«Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.»
«Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence»
Author: Charles Darwin (Author, Naturalist) | About: Men | Keywords: subsistence, tends, tends to
«Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays»
«Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle»
«Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | About: Men | Keywords: baiting, baits, sets, trap, varmint
«Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.»
Author: Menander of Athens (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Men | Keywords: durable
«Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.»
«Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.»