30,129 Quotes About Men

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.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency...

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god...