Quotes on Men

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

All men die, but not all men really live.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families that we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the "Wild West" began.