30,129 Quotes About Men

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.