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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Samuel Richardson on men

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley on men

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch on men

Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Camille Paglia on men

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on men

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
Giacomo Casanova on men

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Alexis de Tocqueville on men

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson on men

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah on men

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu on men

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass on men

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann on men

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli on men