The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Amores Perros and Once Were Warriors had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
Brendan Fletcher
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
Steven Pressfield
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
Miyamoto Musashi
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.
