Quotes
Quotes about Man
Many a time,... from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!
As many men, so many minds; every one his own way.
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
While the sick man has life there is hope.
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
Love thyself, and many will hate thee.
When God is planning ruin for a man, He first deprives him of his reason.
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
No good man ever grew rich all at once.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
A good man possesses a kingdom.
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"
"I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself.
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
