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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.


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SALLUST Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.
SALLUST All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
THOMAS à KEMPIS He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.
DAN GROAT Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.

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SALLUST It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
ARISTOTLE Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a cr...
TIFFANY MADISON Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
EDWARD DAHLBERG Liberty also means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
ANTONIO DE MENDOZA Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
HENRY FORD Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idl...
WU-MEN Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When id...
WU-MEN Who Let The Dogs Out?
BAHA MEN It's a Small World
BAHA MEN The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Men both fear and desire a woman who’s smart and pretty. I like it that way. It only encourages th...
MINNIE GUPTA The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their...
LYSANDER SPOONER I preferred measuring deer tracks, to tape-that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then ...
SAM HOUSTON This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men...
ELMER DAVIS Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. Ther...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A lot of men get women, but only few get wives.
VIKRANT PARSAI Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men
JOHN STUART MILL Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the...
ALBERT CAMUS Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
RICHARD WHATELY Read but o'er the Stories Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile And you shall find th...
JAN VAN OLDEN BARNEVELDT Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be some...
ROBERT D. FOSTER All men have One Master, the Maker.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA I wish I could line up naked the men I've slept with and just gloat for a hot minute. Beautiful crea...
CRYSTAL WOODS By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS A Few Good Men
AARON SORKIN A Few Good Men.
DANNY WHITE What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
EDWARD DAHLBERT There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same l...
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same l...
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confine...
F.A. HAYEK Men of few words are the best men.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to b...
CRISS JAMI Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes...
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS Most religions do not make men better, only warier
ELIAS CANETTI By nature, men desire the beautiful.
SAINT BASIL All men by nature desire knowledge.
ARISTOTLE It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
VANCE HAVNER It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
BENITO MUSSOLINI Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most differe...
RICHARD ROHR Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes...
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes...
, DISSENTING, OLMSTEAD V. UNITED STATES, 277 US 479 (1928) A most highly multiplying trait in point of far-reaching influences is that of ability to discover a...
JOHN MOTT We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. ...
LAINI TAYLOR Men willingly believe what they wish.
JULIUS CAESAR Desire of glory is the last garment that even wise men put off
PROVERB Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to resc...
JOHN ELDREDGE One of the hallmarks of great men is that they never make us conscious of their presence, instead th...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Men freely believe that which they desire.
JULIUS CAESAR All men by nature desire to know.
ARISTOTLE time made me stronger, you're no longer on my mind
BOYZ II MEN Because you let our love just fall apart
You no longer have my heart
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LISA KLEYPAS What will the preachers say? ... to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious h...
VOLTAIRE He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE Men of few words are the best men."

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ERIC WAREHEIM Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, ...
DENNIS PRAGER And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a p...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engin...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engin...
JAMES F. COOPER Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.
IRIS CHANG I wish all men were like dogs.
HALLE BERRY The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
MADAME DE RIEUX Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
VIRGINIE DES RIEUX ...pride for men is like love for women. Very strong. The most important thing for men is pride.
CHRISTIE WATSON Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty
THOMAS JEFFERSON The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss
MAX STIRNER It has never been a mistake to commit a mistake, but a mistake to repeat a mistake
MPALENG EMMANUEL MOHALE Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
G. K. CHESTERTON The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, ...
JOHN RANDOLPH He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting...
JAMES T. FARRELL Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away.
MENCIUS There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Women are not complicated or confusing. It’s just that most men don’t understand that women just...
NICK KINSELLA A few honest men are better than numbers.
OLIVER CROMWELL A few honest men are better than numbers
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ODETTE ANNABLE Men used to want to be both rich and great, now most only want to be rich and men that only pursue w...
CARL WHITE What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work
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WYNTON MARSALIS Only dogs know and respect their masters. This is a rare characteristic of men who secretly envy the...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA All men can live together, if they wish to.
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