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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.


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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.
H.L. MENCKEN The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
LEON BLUM A free man does not do what must be done, but what should be done.
ERALDO BANOVAC The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others
BERNARD BERENSON The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others...
BERNARD BERENSON He who does not research has nothing to teach.
PROVERB He who does not feel me is not real to me, therefore he does not exist. So, poof... vamoose, son of ...
JAY-Z To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man who does nothing never has time to do anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON A man who says that he knows everything, does not know how to be meek.
BRANDITTES CHUA Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter...
ADRIANA LIMA To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free w...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man!
MAO ZEDONG A man should be judged by what he does, not who he is or where he’s from.
MICHAEL G. SOUTHWICK A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
JANE AUSTEN History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real...
KARL MARX No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
ERICH FROMM Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
ERICH FROMM Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
ADLAI STEVENSON Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
ELIZABETH I Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
CALVIN COOLIDGE When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else...
JOHN STEINBECK I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
OSCAR WILDE Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
PLAUTUS He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
GEORG BRANDES Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
MENCIUS (MENGZI MENG-TSE) He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
LAO TZU Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.
LAO-TZU Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he do...
CHIEF SEATTLE One does not plead for a dead man, because the lawyer of a dead man is nothing but a man who remembe...
ROBERT BADINTER Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almo...
KATE DICAMILLO The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere...
FRANK SWINNERTON Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
RALPH BELLAMY The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can ...
ERNEST HELLO Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, w...
ANAïS NIN I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, w...
ANAIS NIN Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSATOM He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The true philosopher does not demonstrate; he shows and says nothing to those who don’t understand...
VIKRANT PARSAI A very unwise man once said, “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand...
SHANNON L. ALDER Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love
OVID The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.
LAO TZU The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
MENCIUS Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want...
ALICE S. ROSSI If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which...
KHUSHWANT SINGH A wise man knows to say he does not know but a fool claims to know until it is apparent by all that ...
KEVIN I.E2 GBOBOH I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
THORNTON WILDER He who does not value life does not deserve it.
LEONARDO DA VINCI There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for i...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for i...
CHARLES EDWARD MONTAGUE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
EPICTETUS It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing.
DONNA TARTT He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
LEONARDO DA VINCI He always pushed me to the limit. He is a strong man who does things very right.
DENISE HAKIM A just man is not one who does no ill, but he, who with the power, has not the will
PHILEMON Maybe he does want to rehabilitate himself, but he does not speak, so we do not know.
CLAUDE MOISE He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, ...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself...
VOLTAIRE He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
LAO TZU He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted
LAO TZU A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that ...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
AUSONIUS It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
SIR JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Beware the quiet man, for he who does not speak, is always thinking.
ENRIQUE VEGA Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to...
THOMAS J. WATSON He who does not consider others' opinions does not deserve to have his considered in return.
TROY PEW He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasur...
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; if he does not love solitude, he will not love fre...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation?
THORNTON WILDER For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
THORNTON WILDER If one really want to do something, he has way,if one does not, he finds an excuse.Those who have de...
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. [Lat.,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not s...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an o...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Vol...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adver...
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