Quotes
Quotes about Men
Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.
Men are used as they use others.
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.... I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?
To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
As many men, so many minds; every one his own way.
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
