"My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me."

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Source : "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

Democritus

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.”
“We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.”
“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.”
“Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.”
“The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated.”
“Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately he's called me a socialist for wanting to roll-back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.”
“Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.”
“We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”

Source : Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3

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