30,129 Quotes About Men

How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is just what you are doing when you allow your indignation to rise at their wrongdoing; for after all, they are only following their own apparent concerns and interests. You say they are mistaken? Why then, tell them so, and explain it to them, instead of being indignant.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.