Quotes about men
men mad fear-of-death
Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die. Epicurus
men mad action
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
men justice fairness
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
men thinking unhappy
Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.
men annihilation
What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
men able impossible
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.
men birth realizing
Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.
men littles charity
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
men civilization community
Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
men causes
A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
men riches acquisition
The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
men views mind
It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them. Epictetus
men faults
There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.
men choices masters
No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
men thinking blame
If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
men action philosopher
If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.
men opinion ashamed
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
men one-day each-day
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
men unendurable feels
But to be hanged is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.
men mind action
The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
men masters
Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
men unhappy faults
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
men fancy alarms
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
men ideas blame
Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.
men giving events
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
men oxford opinion
Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.
men blame instruction
It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.
men opposites progress
No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
men law special
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
men airports shapes
When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture. Emilio Pucci
men canada fields
The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women. Emily Carr
men giving lovely
Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.
men society sensible
A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. Emily Bronte