„Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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„You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.“
— Nikki Sixx
„If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.“
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
„You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.“
— Cassandra Clare
„To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Some men break your heart in two,Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you;And that cleans up the matter.“
— Dorothy Parker
„I've fought with men and gods, I've weighed them well and foundthe sea more firm than earth, the air more firm than sea,and man's impalpable soul still yet more firm than air!“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, you too shall live but for a little season; death and the day of your doom are close upon you, and they will lay you low by the hand of Achilles son of Aiakos.“
— Homér
„Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson