Quotes
Quotes about Man
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.
Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee, Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!
Many without punishment, none without sin.
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
