Great Throughts Treasury

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Isaac Barrow

If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man’s enmity needlessly; since any man’s love may be useful, and every man’s hatred is dangerous.

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Character | Desire | Good | Love | Man | Means | Men | Will |

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Max Beerbohm, fully Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm

To say that a man is vain simply means that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

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Ahikar or Ahiqar NULL

The beauty of man is in his faithfulness, and his hatefulness is the lying of his lips.

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Beauty | Character | Lying | Man | Beauty |

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Ahikar or Ahiqar NULL

A man knows not what is in the heart of his fellow.

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Character | Heart | Man | Wisdom |

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Antisthenes NULL

A wise man will always be contented with his condition, and will live rather according to his precepts of virtue, than according to the customs of his country.

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Character | Man | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Wise |

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Isaac Barrow

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.

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Khajah Abdullah Ansari of Herat, Abu Ismaïl Abdullah ibn Abi-Mansour Mohammad or Khajah Abdullah Ansari of Herat

The company of a good man is the light of the soul, of an evil man the poison of life.

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Character | Evil | Good | Life | Life | Light | Man | Soul |

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Saul Bellow

A man is only as good as what he loves.

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Character | Good | Man |

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Fred de Armond

A man who truly wants to make the world better should start by improving himself and his attitudes.

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Better | Character | Man | Wants | World |

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Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa, also known as Rabbeinu Behaye

It is integrity that invests man with immortality, and bestows upon him the privilege of direct communion with God.

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Character | God | Immortality | Integrity | Man | Privilege |

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Simeon ben Azai, sometimes Ben Azai

Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.

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Character | Despise | Man |

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