The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
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The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.
F. L. LUCAN The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself
LUCAN The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.
[Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than o...
CRISS JAMI A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.
JAMES CARLOS BLAKE A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part
WILLIAM HAZLITT A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
MARK TWAIN would seem as though language is the only predestination of man, and that he is created to bring it ...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
GEORGE BERKELEY Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconcili...
JOHN WESLEY Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconci...
JOHN WESLEY The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that any...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
MARK TWAIN Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied
MARK TWAIN Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
MARK TWAIN Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
MARK TWAIN A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar
MARK TWAIN About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the mir...
ERICH FROMM No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself
MUHAMMAD It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of wh...
A. W. TOZER You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason...
SAINT BERNARD Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time...
SIMONE WEIL For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN VON GOETHE That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the<...
ERICH FROMM When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also go...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; wh...
THOMAS CARLYLE The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; wha...
THOMAS CARLYLE More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man t...
GABRIEL HEATTER More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man t...
GABRIEL HEATTER And that unless above himself he canErect himself, how poor a thing is man.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives hi...
OSCAR WILDE The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
CHARLES H. PARKHURST A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real al...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself...
ROBERT INGERSOLL The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL When we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for hi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We have learned, for example, that the more virtuous a man is the more severe is his super-ego, and ...
SIGMUND FREUD There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
FRANCIS BACON There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
SIR FRANCIS BACON There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
FRANCIS BACON SR. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, real...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...
JOHN WESLEY When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...
JOHN WESLEY There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest ma...
C C COLTON There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man,...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Each time a man looks into your eyes, he is only searching to find himself; for he knows already, th...
JEREMY ALDANA I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The f...
ENRICO CARUSO What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always ...
ROBIN G. COLLINGWOOD Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
ALEXIS CARREL Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
ALEXIS CARREL He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.
G.K. CHESTERTON The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie...
ISIDORE DUCASSE LAUTREAMONT Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie...
COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUS When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnip...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
LLOYD ALEXANDER He excels in wheeling and dealing - I'm sure he'll manage the parliament. He is an utterly decent ma...
HAMID KARZAI Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the fac...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest serv...
BENJAMIN JOWETT To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peo...
MAX BEERBOHM To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peopl...
MAX BEERBOHM Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal d...
MARK TWAIN What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is alway...
HANNAH ARENDT Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.
TOBA BETA Man is what he wills himself to be.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If a man is cruel, he destroy himself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved h...
CASSANDRA CLARE Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.
SAMUEL DANIEL The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
CHARLES W. ELIOT The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, so...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is...
MAX ERNST The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
RICHARD M. NIXON When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get o...
OSWALD CHAMBERS A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but n...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that ...
SAMUEL BUTLER He just loved it — that was his favorite thing, doing the calculations himself.
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[Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]
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[Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato ju...
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[Lat., Victrix cause Diis pl...
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[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Agreement exists in disagreement.
[Lat., Mansit concordia discors.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The chiefs contend only for their place of burial.
[Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Those who guilt stains it equals.
[Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]
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LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.
[Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature
requires.
[Lat., Discite quam pa...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Might was the measure of right.
[Lat., Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.]
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[Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fa...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) And rejoicing that he has made his way by ruin.
[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.
[Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be
done.
[Lat., Nil actum credens, ...
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world.
[Lat., Nec sibi sed toti ...
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Each man makes his own shipwreck.
[Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever
more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN 'Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a
stormy sea.
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LUCANUS MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
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