30,129 Quotes About Men

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.