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Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.