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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.

Emanuel Swedenborg

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

Emanuel Swedenborg

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

Emanuel Swedenborg