Men Quotes

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

All men are not rapists - but almost all rapists are men.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

Man proposes, God disposes.

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.