- Quotes by Alexander Pope
“Some praise at morning what they blame at night. But always think the last opinion right. I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest”. - Quotes by Pliny the Elder
“Man is the only animal that knows nothing, and can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, nor do anything at the prompting of nature, but only weep. Lions do not fight with one another; serpents do not attack serpents, nor do the wild monsters of the deep rage against their like. But most of the calamities of man are caused by his fellow man”. - Quotes by Plato
“Man is a tame, a domesticated animal”. - Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith
“How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true”. - Quotes by Octavio Paz“Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the other”.
- Quotes by Blaise Pascal
“Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling”. - Quotes by George Orwell
“The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic”. - Quotes by Ben Okri
“A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself”. - Quotes by Desmond Morris
“He is proud of the fact that he has the biggest brain of all the primates, but attempts to conceal the fact that he also has the biggest penis”.
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