„Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.“

— Horace Mann

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„Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited … and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.“
— Aristotle
„Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.“
— Benito Mussolini
„Women do not know how to be women exactly; men constantly fail to be men.“
— Andrea Dworkin