Quotes about men
men unjust
Every unjust man is unjust against his will. Plato
men musician virtue
When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
men answers conversation
All men, well interrogated, answer well.
men thinking honor
Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.
men bird
Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
men soul next
Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
men animal savages
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
men doors poetry
It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
men cities tree
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
men water-of-life doctrine
A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.
men tolerable
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
men giving honor
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
men government he-man
As the government is, such will be the man.
men atheism divine-power
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.....
men evil religion
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.
men ease doe
More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
men feathers
Man is a biped without feathers.
men issues justice
Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
men good-man answers
If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
men knowing society
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.
men honor desire
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.
men virtue praise
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
men soul quality
The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
men mad age
How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."
men sick firsts
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.
men vanity what-if
What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?
men greatest-victory victory
Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
men upright-man purpose
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life....
men ideas
As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
men animal two
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
men worry anxiety
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
men poet every-man
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
men evil good-man
No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.