"Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good."

-- Arcangela Tarabotti

#Men Quotes #Wicked Quotes #Speak Quotes

“The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.”
“People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.”
“It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.”
“I'm very bubbly, so when people meet me, they sometimes think I'm fake. I'm excited to meet new people, but I guess I sound I'm being sarcastic.”
“It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'”
“You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far." So thirty-one might be the magic number?" Principal Reed and Raven”
“I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.”
“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”

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