Man Quotes
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A man is the origin of his action.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
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An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
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The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves.
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.
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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
