30,129 Quotes About Men

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.