I Quotes
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“If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.”
Source: Lunyu
“If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.”
Source: Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer
“If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“If a man should ascend alone into heaven and behold clearly the structure of the universe and the beauty of the stars, there would be no pleasure for him in the awe-inspiring sight, which would have filled him with delight if he had had someone to whom he could describe what he had seen. Nature abhors solitude.”
“If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.”
“If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.”
“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.”
Source: Essays of Montaigne
“If a man should pursue pure pleasure than mere pleasure, he would be a happy soul.”
“If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.”
Source: The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.
“If a man sins and denies it, saying, 'I have not sinned,' do not correct him, or you will destroy any intention he might have of changing. If you say, 'Do not be cast down, my brother, but be careful about that in the future,' you will move his heart to repent.”
“If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?”
Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that he, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them...that psychological confession reveals the enormity of the extent to which altruism erodes men's capacity to grasp the concept of rights or the value of an individual life.”
“If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.”
“If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon laying down rails for surface cars in some place where surface cars turn out not to be wanted, he has diverted a mass of labor into channels where it gives pleasure to no one. Nevertheless, when he becomes poor through failure of his investment he will be regarded as a victim of undeserved misfortune, whereas the gay spendthrift, who has spent his money philanthropically, will be despised as a fool and a frivolous person.”
Source: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
“If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.”
Source: Three Men on the Bummel
“If a man successful in business expends a part of his income in things of no real use, while the poor employed by him pass through difficulties in getting the necessaries of life, this requires his serious attention.”
Source: A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman: In the Service of the Gospel
“If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.”
“If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.”
“If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.”
Source: The Analects
“If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.”
“If a man takes you to a restaurant of his choosing, don’t compliment him. Rave about the quality of the food and he’ll be thrilled, because he took you there.”
Source: Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel
“If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.”
“If a man talks this today and that tomorrow, he is a thief.”
“If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.”
Source: The Works of John Owen
“If a man tells a woman what to do and she obeys,
so there is neither a man nor a woman there.”
“If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.”
“If a man tells you he's an asshole & that you deserve better, believe him...it's a warning. It's best you listen before he proves it to you.”
“If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint.”
“If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed....?”
“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”
“If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.”
“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)
“If a man treats you like a princess, he deserves to be your king.”
“If a man truly loves, he gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.”
Source: Cybele's Secret
“If a man truly loves,....He does not consider the obstacles, the restrictions, the reasons why his choice may be flawed or impratical. He gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.”
Source: Cybele's Secret
“If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.”
Source: The Keys to Growing in Love
“If a man turns his back on Christ when He speaks, the hour will come when he will ask and receive no answer.”
Source: The Life of Jesus Christ: A Biographical Overview of the Life of Christ
“If a man uses his gift, he will be glad.”
“If a man values you, then he does. How long you prolong 'the chase' may not necessarily add to or subtract from that. So if you love him and you know he loves you back, then please click the 'yes' bottom to his proposal. It is bad to love the wrong person, but worse to cheaply lose the one that loves you right.”
Source: If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...
“If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.”
Source: Collected Works
“If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”
Source: The Elements of Typographic Style
“If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.”
Source: The Shoemaker's Wife
“If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind.”
Source: Popisho
“If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.”
Source: Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
“If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.”
“If a man wants to announce the oppression that he was exposed to, he should not talk, instead, he must keep silent.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC