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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

— Victor Hugo

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

— Lucretius

By nature, men love newfangledness.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

— Joan Baez

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

— Edmund Burke

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

— Theodore White

The dose makes the poison.

— Paracelsus

Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure.

— Cesare Beccaria

✗Opposing Perspectives

The more comfortable men are with dealing with their own vulnerability and their own ideas of masculinity and feeling emasculated, the healthier they are. It's a healthy thing to deal with.

— Ben Schnetzer

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

— Alice Hamilton

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

— Pope John XXIII