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A true man hates no one. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. -- Robert E. Lee
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life. -- Robert Bly
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. -- Luigi Pirandello
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman. -- Ambrose Bierce
You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey. -- Robert E. Lee
When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface -- Mark Twain
I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him. -- David Gemmell
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science. -- Claude Bernard
The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven. -- Zhuangzi
The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty. -- Pope Leo I
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. -- Oscar Wilde
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain. -- Plutarch
O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment -- St. Catherine of Siena
The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made. -- Henry David Thoreau
Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do. -- Joe Frazier
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. -- Woodrow Wilson
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Calamity is man's true touchstone. -- John William Fletcher
A true artist is an ugly man. -- Osamu Dazai
Posterity gives every man his true value. -- Tacitus
The true man breathes with his heels. -- Zhuangzi
The true enemy of man is generalization. -- Czeslaw Milosz
A true party-man hates and despises candour. -- Adam Smith
Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -- William Shakespeare
Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher. -- Kedar Joshi
Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man. -- Jeff Bridges
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god. -- Mark Twain
He's true to God who's true to man. -- James Russell Lowell
No man should be angry with what is true. -- Plato
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. -- Charles Chaplin
The ambitious man has never found his true vocation... -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit. -- Swami Vivekananda
He who never says "no" is no true man. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. -- Charles Chaplin
Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The true science and study of mankind is man. -- Pierre Charron
The true science and study of man is man. -- Pierre Charron
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
True architecture exists only where man stands in the center. -- Alvar Aalto
Let every man be true and every god a liar. -- Samuel Butler
Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. -- Dwight L. Moody
The inner light is the true soul of a man. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The man of true greatness never loses his child's heart. -- Mencius
To find a man's true character, play golf with him. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. -- Francis Bacon
nothing is slower than the true birth of a man -- Marguerite Yourcenar
so few in reality are the true necessities of man -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God. -- Rumi
Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him. -- James Tiptree Jr.
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Will Rogers
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another. -- Walter Savage Landor
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A true man does what he will, not what he must. -- George R. R. Martin
Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny -- Paulo Coelho
I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs. -- John Wooden
True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man. -- Georg Ebers
If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy. -- William Shakespeare
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history. -- Carl Jung
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. -- Khalil Gibran
Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love. -- Pope John Paul II
A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest. -- Khem Veasna
A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable. -- Mahatma Gandhi
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good. -- Confucius
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it. -- Alexandre Dumas
The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead. -- Herman Melville
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. -- Henry David Thoreau
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself. -- Hermann Hesse
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. -- George Santayana
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for. -- Marcus Aurelius
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. -- E. F. Schumacher
Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. -- Cyril Connolly
In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. -- Henry Ward Beecher
No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech. -- Ben Jonson
Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true. -- Oscar Wilde
One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. -- Henry Miller
Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization. -- Suzy Kassem
True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven. -- Walter Scott
Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. -- Thomas Carlyle
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] -- Tacitus
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true. -- H. L. Mencken
True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience. -- Baruch Spinoza
True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God. -- Karl Barth
[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank! -- Joan Halifax
A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes. -- Francis Bacon
It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession. -- George Bernard Shaw
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. -- Paul Valery
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. -- Theodore Martin
The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close. -- Alma Katsu
Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all. -- George R. R. Martin
The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer. -- John Calvin
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. -- Steven James
Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. -- Marcus Aurelius
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly. -- James Martineau
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. -- John Bunyan
You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals. -- Paul McCartney

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