"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence."
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"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence."
"We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment."
"When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil."
"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."
"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."
"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear."
"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it."
"The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold men who in their inmost souls are true and honest men who do not fear to call sin by its right name men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall."
"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."
"If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened."
"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."
"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."
"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."
"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."
"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
"One of my biggest pet peeves is when a guy's wearing flip-flop sandals, which I don't understand. Men's feet are disgusting to begin with, but now they're on display when I try to go out for a nice steak at a restaurant, and I have to sit there and look at some guy's hoof? I don't get it. I don't understand it."
"Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates."
"Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive."
"The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be."
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