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“Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”

Men Persons Self States Action Desire Loses Liberty Strange Fame Servant Sovereign Thrice Power Over Others

Book:The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

Source: The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

“Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.”

Men World Ideas Moments Seems Pain Beautiful Loses Pleasure Bears Sight Misery Lovely Trials Miserable Love Life

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.”

Men Loses Money Five Fool Accounts Dollars Profit Expenses Cents

Author:Gene Fowler

“There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.”

Men Hours Loses Mystery Capable Ordinary Charm Immortal Possessed Decay Entity Unseen Disturbing Intriguing Ordinary Things Himalayas Alps

Author:Frank Smythe

“Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.”

Knows Men May Doe Matter Evil Loses Mistake He Man Masters Gold Slavery Noble Hypocrisy Infamy

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.”

Men Loses Sole Deprived

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.”

Men Given Christ Loses Without God

Book:The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War

Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War

“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!”

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

“Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.”

Knows Men Wells Loses Magic Opposites Distance Admire Great Men

Author:Rudolf Hess