Quotes on Men

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.

Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.