Quotes about men
men people perfect
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
men woe-unto yield
If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.
men prejudice paradox
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
men want way
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
men forgiving prejudice
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
men vanity mad
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
men good-man pay
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
men society human-nature
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.
men hands degenerates
Everything degenerates in the hands of man.
men vanity fool
There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
men desire able
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
men giving desire
To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
men hands independence
The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.
men imagination speak
Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
men way half
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
men silence taste
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
men birth speak
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
men differences looks
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
men rights humanity
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
men fortune
The truth brings no man a fortune.
men perfect democracy
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
men years giving
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
men action propaganda
The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
men hands poverty
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
men long people
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.
men two excess
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
men self helping
There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.
men law too-much
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
men hands world
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
men weakness example
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
men perfect inspire
Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.
men vanity mad
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
men doe may
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.