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Man is the roof and crown of creation 
Swami Chinmayananda 
 
Man is essentially Divine. But the Divinity in him is veiled by the unknown series of desires and thoughts arising in his bosom 
Swami Chinmayananda 
 
Man comes naked into this world and again he departs naked. Such destiny shall attend him, as God's pen hath recorded upon his forehead 
Guru Nanak 
 
He is truly a man to whom money is only a servant; but on the other hand, those who do not know how to make a proper use of it, hardly deserve to be called men 
Sri Ramakrishna 
 
As the monkey sacrifices its life at the feet of the hunter so does a man at the feet of a beautiful woman 
Sri Ramakrishna 
 
Man can soar higher than angels; he can sink lower than beasts 
Zarathushtra 
 
When man fails to suppress the tumult of the senses, and masters not his passions, his passions master him and he becomes a wilful slave and a prisoner of his passions 
Zarathushtra 
 
Man has the spark of divinity within him, and he can elevate himself to the greatest height of moral superiority 
Zarathushtra 
 
Man comes from God in the beginning, in the middle he becomes man, in the end he goes back to God 
Swami Vivekananda 
 
As long as a man's desire for woman, however little is not cut through, so long is his mind attached, like a suckling calf to its mother 
Dhammapada 
 
A man whose mind is obsessed with children and chattels is carried away by death like a sleeping village by a flood 
Dhammapada 
 

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