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Quotes by Athenæus in Men category:
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"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with." 3.8000 average rating  
"No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage." 4.3333 average rating  
"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'" 4.0000 average rating  
"For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own." 4.2857 average rating