Quotes about men
men inability trouble
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still. Blaise Pascal
men roots sorrow
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
men lost-friendship lost-everything
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
men race progress
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.
men rooms inability
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
men judging causes
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
men soldier desire
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.
men knows
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
men hands feet
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
men thinking dignity
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
men thinking feet
I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.
men independence needs
Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
men motive exception
All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.
men reason impulse
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
men desire want
What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.
men diversity different
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.
men doubt might
Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
men world mature
Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
men
Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
men miserable worthy
En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.
men practice judging
Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.
men boredom anxiety
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
men errors grace
L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.
men car style
Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
men differences people
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
men fool doe
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
men style sake
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.
men strange dignity
All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!
men different doe
All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
men pardon heal
If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
men solitude fellow-man
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.
men perception looks
No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
men differences funny-basketball
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.