A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>