"The man who can be compelled knows not how to die."
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"The men of old breathed clear down to their heels."
"The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition."
"The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one."
"Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself."
"When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it."
"The 'expert' is the man who stays put."
"The man who acts the least, upbraids the most."
"When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something."
"The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium."
"... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion."
"A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money."
"The man that makes a character, makes foes."
"I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs."
"The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself."
"The man or woman who lives worthily now is in a state of salvation."
"Let the end try the man."
"I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head."
"The man who renounces himself, comes to himself."
"Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man."