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No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it. — Daniel Defoe

Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them. — Harold Ramis

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life. — Stendhal

A good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy. — Seneca.

Ty grunted. Guy with a gun, I'm your man. Big white tiger with teeth, it's every steak for himself. — Abigail Roux

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce. — Henry Ward Beecher

A strong man could bend the sky to suit him, but only for himself, Temujin knew. — Conn Iggulden

For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. — Anonymous

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself. — Charles De Gaulle

Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves — Dante Alighieri

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force — Leo Buscaglia

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right. — John Dos Passos

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. — Laurence Sterne

Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell. — Anwar Sadat

I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man's improvement in himself. — Honore De Balzac

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself. — Abraham Lincoln

But I say their rules are bullshit. I say there are no rules but the ones a man makes for himself. — Dennis Lehane

for what man does not love that which he himself has built? — Louis L'Amour

They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man's struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God. With — Robert M. Edsel

Men have no excuse for not knowing about God because He has revealed Himself in man's conscience and in the physical world (Rom. 1:19, 20; 2:15). — John F. MacArthur Jr.

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good. — Criss Jami

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. — Eric Hoffer

For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself. — Neville Goddard

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. — Alexis Carrel

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God. — Howard G. Hendricks

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature. — George Eliot

He's managed to make himself something highly unusual for a man at this stage of his career: unclassifiable. Unpredictable. Tom Jones is no joke — Ken Tucker

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself. — Seneca The Younger

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival. — Chris Murray

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught. — Frank Sinatra

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag. — Margaret Thatcher

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good. — Pliny The Elder

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man. — Hesiod

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others. — George Jean Nathan

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him. — H. C. Bailey

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves — Charles Dickens

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers. — George Whitefield

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back. — John Eldredge

If a man can save himself, there is no need for a Saviour. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve — Thomas Paine

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect. — Henry David Thoreau

The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant himself — Imam Ali

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. — William Shakespeare

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god. — Friedrich Nietzsche

By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there. — Francis Of Assisi

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. — Lloyd Alexander

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself. — Mary Baker Eddy

When God made Man he made no mistakes, He knew man would make those for himself".

~ R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. — Thomas Jefferson

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself. — Malcolm X

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. — William Godwin

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. — Benjamin Franklin

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself. — Penelope Tree

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself. — Karl Marx

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. — Finley Peter Dunne

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate. — Erich Fromm

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune? — William Graham Sumner

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. — George Santayana

The first duty of a man is to think for himself — Jose Marti

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god. — David Zindell

Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others. — David O. McKay

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. — Wallace Stevens

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree. — Helen Keller

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it. — Luis Barragan

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted. — Eva Figes

It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people. — L. Frank Baum

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself. — Confucius

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved. — Sigmund Freud

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. — Plautus

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. — Marcel Pagnol

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. — Carl Jung

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself. — Horace Pippin

for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity. — Thomas Paine

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end. — Hesiod

It's every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild. — Tina Turner

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement. — James Carlos Blake

Everyone asks for freedom for himself,
The man free love, the businessman free trade,
The writer and talker free speech and free press. — Robert Frost

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself. — A. H. Weiler

Every man for himself, the devil for all. — Robert Burton

I'd like every man who doesn't call himself a feminist to explain to the women in his life why he doesn't believe in equality for women. — Louise Brealey

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience! — James Fenimore Cooper

Man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, can fully find himself only through a sincere gift of himself. — Pope John Paul II

I don't know you either for that matter. So maybe I shouldn't trust the words of a man who only recently decided to stitch himself into the picture. — Kimberly Spencer

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. — Bertrand Russell

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others. — Dick Cavett

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential. — Robert Morley

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains. — Jean De La Bruyere

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself. — Richard Matheson

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself. — Mark Twain

That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly. — Joseph Conrad